Thanks to a grant from the Purchase College Affiliates, the campus will have two opportunities to view some very rare Andy Warhol films within the next few weeks. David Schwartz, chief curator at the Museum of the Moving Image and Purchase professor, set up the free screenings of Warhol’s double-screen films for his class, “Warhol in Context,” but is inviting the entire campus to these special showings.
“The films are considered ‘double-screen’ because there are projectors projecting film side-by-side,” said Schwartz. He said that the films are very rarely seen because unlike most films (but unfortunately like most of Warhol’s films), they are only available in their original 16 mm format, which is how they will be projected. Despite being so infrequently seen, Schwartz considers Warhol’s films to be “his greatest artistic achievements.”
Both evenings are open to the entire campus. They will take place in the Fort Awesome classroom, and attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and pillows to create an atmosphere similar to that of Warhol’s famed Factory.
On April 21, Schwartz will be screening Inner and Outer Space and Lupe, both starring Warhol’s most famed performer: Edie Sedgwick. In the first film, Sedgwick interacts with her own videotaped image, while in the second she reenacts the attempted suicide of Hollywood actress Lupe Velez. This screening will begin at 8 p.m.
On April 28 at 7 p.m., Schwartz will be showing The Chelsea Girls, what he calls “a monument of the 1960s avant-garde.” Filmed at the Chelsea Hotel, the film features a cast of Warhol regulars and music by the Velvet Underground.
These three films are among the hundreds that Warhol filmed in the prolific period from 1963 to 1968. “These are fascinating, brilliant movies, and a great time capsule of Warhol's world in the mid-1960s,” said Schwartz.
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