Andy Warhol From a to B and Back Again Book Whitney Table of Contents

Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Once more places at its forefront Warhol'southward radical reinvention of media, of which his films are an essential component, cardinal to any agreement of the artist's work of the 1960s and, therefore, his piece of work beyond. This screening program presents a choice of titles, all shown in their original 16mm format, from Warhol's preserved films and focuses on 8 themes in Warhol's cinematic oeuvre that link straight to his work in other media on view in the Museum'southward galleries. By foregrounding the complexity of Warhol's thinking, this film series highlights how certain singular obsessions migrate through diverse forms, finally to exist worked out on picture show.

This motion-picture show program is co-organized with the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and curated by Claire Thousand. Henry, assistant curator, Whitney Museum.

All Warhol flick prints courtesy the Circulating Motion-picture show Library, Department of Film, The Museum of Modernistic Art.

"Exercise It Yourself": Warhol as Balletomane

Taking inspiration from the gallery presentation of Warhol'due south early drawings featuring dancers, and near significantly, his Trip the light fantastic toe Diagrams, this program traces how Warhol's continued obsession with dancers and dance played out in his film work.

Films
Screen Test ST137, Freddy Herko, 1964
Screen Test ST52, Lucinda Childs, 1964
Screen Test ST53, Lucinda Childs, 1964
Shoulder, 1964
Jill and Freddy Dancing, 1963
Jill Johnston Dancing, 1964

Saturday, November 17, 2018
7 pm

Fri, November 23, 2018
ii pm

Commercial/ Commodity

Keenly aware of how the advertising world functioned equally a upshot of his commercial work of the 1950s, Warhol brought his preoccupation with advertisements into his film work offset in 1964 with a serial of screen tests featuring prominent product placements.

Films
Screen Test ST147, Jane Holzer (Toothbrush), 1964
Screen Test ST270, Lou Reed (Hershey), 1966
Screen Test ST244, Nico (Coke), 1966
Soap Opera(excerpt), 1964

Saturday, Nov 24, 2018
7 pm

Wed, November 28, 2018
2 pm

Minimalism and Seriality

Warhol embraced the mechanization inherent in the filmmaking process. In films similar Empire and Sleep, he allowed the inherent qualities and basic filmic constraints to dictate the aesthetic and dimensions (running time) of his piece of work.

Part I
Sleep, 1963

Sat, December 29, 2018
3 pm

Dominicus, March 31, 2019
seven pm

Part II
Empire, 1964

Saturday, January 12, 2019
i pm

Sabbatum, March 9, 2019
one pm

Part 3
Osculation, 1963
Eat, 1964
Blow Job, 1964

Sunday, December 2, 2018
ii pm

"Ladies and Gentlemen": Portraiture in Warhol'southward Motion picture

In the screen tests and his other filmic portraits, Warhol was able to reach in movie that which was simply impossible in other media.  By exploiting the moving-picture show'due south durational aspect, Warhol subjected his sitters to the unmitigated scrutiny of the camera, thus provoking attributes of their personality that might otherwise have remained hidden.

Part I
Me and Taylor, 1963.
Poor Little Rich Girl, 1965
Henry in Bath, 1963
Joe Jones, 1963

Saturday, December 8, 2018
7 pm

Role Two
Tiger Morse(Reel 14 of ****), 1966
Ari and Mario, 1966

Saturday, Feb two, 2019
7 pm

Function III
Henry Geldzahler, 1964

Saturday, March xvi, 2019
7 pm

"Vote McGovern": Warhol and Politics

The 1960s were marked by media proliferation in both print and goggle box, and saturated coverage of frequently fierce political events (the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy and civil rights leader assassinations). Warhol publicly disavowed any interest in politics, all the same turned to political events as subjects for his piece of work, including picture.

Films
The Life of Juanita Castro, 1965
Since, 1966

Wednesday, January 16, 2019
2 pm

Saturday, January 26, 2019
vii pm

Queer Performativity

The infamous social space of Warhol'south Factory—and the dramas that unfolded there—were in fact still marginal within the art world in its fourth dimension. In contrast to the strictly heteronormative and repressive outside world, the Factory was a infinite in which one could both embody and perform queerness, and nothing was deemed an inappropriate field of study for the camera'due south scrutiny.

Films
Camp, 1965
Vinyl, 1965
My Hustler, 1965

Saturday, Feb 9, 2019
7 pm

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
2 pm

Hollywood Stars/Hollywood Types

Casting drag performer Mario Montez as movie sirens Hedy Lamarr and Jean Harlow, or his ideal female and doppelganger Edie Sedgwick as doomed "Hollywood Spitfire" Lupe Velez, immune Warhol to experiment on moving picture with his idols while exploring ideas of glamour, desire and gender portrayal.

Films
Harlot, 1964
Hedy, 1966
Lupe, 1965

Saturday, February xvi, 2019
7 pm

Midweek, February 20, 2019
2 pm

Interior vs. Outside/Public vs. Private

During his lifetime, Warhol actively crafted a public persona suggesting that he had little use for intimate relationships. In truth, Warhol had deep and long-lasting friendships and relationships with the people in his circles.

Films
Kenward Elmslie, 1963
John Washing, 1963
Alan Marlowe and Diane di Prima, 1964
John and Ivy, 1965
Outer and Inner Space, 1965

Sunday, March 3, 2019
2 pm

Wednesday, March half-dozen, 2019
2 pm

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Andy Warhol Movie Project

The Andy Warhol Film Project began in the 1980s when the Whitney Museum and The Museum of Modernistic Art (MoMA) agreed to collaborate on the largest archival research project in the history of American avant-garde movie theatre: to catalogue Warhol'southward massive film collection, investigate its history, and preserve and re-release all of the films in conjunction with a program of scholarly research and publication. Warhol himself gave his approving to the Whitney's project and handed over his original films to MoMA for cataloguing and storage in 1984. The joint project was launched publicly in 1988 with the Whitney'due south exhibition, The Films of Andy Warhol, and with MoMA's release of thirteen newly preserved titles.

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