Critical Writing Index

Warhol as Filmmaker

by David Bourdon

Art in America, Jan. 1968, v. 56, no. 1, pp. 48-53

An article surveying Andy Warhol's film work. The article provides a chronological analysis of Warhol's evolution as a filmmaker. Beginning with his still, silent, real-time films of people sleeping for eight hours, or spending 45 minutes eating a mushroom, to his phase experimenting with sound, color, camera-movement, action, narrative and abrupt editing.

The article goes on to analyse the construction of his films throughout these phases, as well as his casting choices and absolutist collaborative tendencies.

ITEM 1968.008 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

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