American pop artist Andy Warhol became a pop icon himself, symbolizing the wild decadence of the "beautiful people" of the 1970s. Born Andrew Warhola in Pennsylvania, he studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology before designing advertisements for women's shoes. After gaining notoriety for his pop-art renditions of things such as Campbell's Soup cans and silk screens of Marilyn Monroe, Warhol began making experimental films during the early '60s. Most of his early works were little more than passive chronicles of the ordinary. For example, in the film Sleep, he simple recorded a man sleeping for several hours. Such endeavors were heralded as groundbreaking by other experimental filmmakers, but the public and most critics generally regarded them as wastes of film, and their time. Still, Warhol continued making these plotless films until he eventually began adding crude soundtracks and sketchy scripts. Many of these films are filled with his "players": the beautiful people, "freaks," and wealthy dilettantes that constantly surrounded the artist and his "Factory," an art studio he founded in 1962. His films became a form of cinéma vérité, a voyeur's delight of strange people doing equally strange things. Some of the players Warhol turned into underground celebrities included Candy Darling, Viva, Holly Woodlawn, and Ingrid Superstar. Simply playing versions of themselves, they left the viewer to decide if they were, in fact, real people or simply fantastical figures. Many of Warhol's films were centered on sex and death, and the sex in his films was often explicit and transcended traditional gender boundaries. In 1968, Warhol was wounded by a disgruntled Factory reject, an incident which inspired the 1996 movie I Shot Andy Warhol. While healing, he began to withdraw from filmmaking, closed the Factory, and turned the reins of his operation over to filmmakers such as Paul Morrissey, who helped make subsequent movies more commercially accessible. Morrissey was behind Warhol's best known films Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula, both of which were shot while in Rome in 1973. Although Warhol never fully recovered from the attempt on his life and had stopped making films, he did continue his voyeurism of the strange lives of his illustrious friends via the Polaroid camera he carried with him until he died in 1987 from complications following surgery.
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Beautiful Darling
Archival Appearance |
2010 | |||
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Archival Appearance |
2010 | |||
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Archival Appearance |
2008 | |||
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The Feature
Archival Appearance |
2008 | |||
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The Universe of Keith Haring
Participant |
2007 | |||
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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Archival Appearance |
2006 | |||
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Archival Appearance |
2005 | |||
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Nico-Icon
Archival Appearance |
1995 | |||
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Andy Warhol
Archival Appearance |
1988 | |||
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Imagine: John Lennon - The Definitive Film Portrait
Archival Appearance |
1988 | |||
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The Look
Actor |
1985 | |||
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L'Amour
Producer, Screenwriter |
1984 | |||
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Portfolio
Actor |
1984 | |||
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66 Scener fra Amerika
Participant |
1981 | |||
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Blank Generation
Actor, Associate Producer |
1979 | |||
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Cocaine Cowboys
Actor, Producer |
1979 | |||
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Andy Warhol's Bad
Executive Producer |
1977 | |||
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Underground and Emigrants
Participant |
1976 | |||
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The Driver's Seat
Actor |
1974 | |||
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Blood for Dracula
Producer |
1973 | |||
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Cocksucker Blues
Participant |
1972 | |||
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Heat
Actor, Producer |
1972 | |||
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Painters Painting
Participant |
1972 | |||
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Women in Revolt
Producer |
1971 | |||
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Diaries, Notes and Sketches
Participant |
1970 | |||
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Dynamite Chicken
Actor |
1970 | |||
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Trash
Producer |
1970 | |||
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Blue Movie
Cinematographer, Director, Producer |
1968 | |||
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Flesh
Producer |
1968 | |||
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Ich Bin Ein Elefant, Madame
Composer (Music Score) |
1968 | |||
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Lonesome Cowboys
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1968 | |||
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Loves of Ondine
Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter |
1968 | |||
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Merce Cunningham's Rainforest
Set Designer |
1968 | |||
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San Diego Surf
Director |
1968 | |||
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The Illiac Passion
Actor |
1968 | |||
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The Queen
Actor |
1968 | |||
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Batman Fights Dracula
Producer |
1967 | |||
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Bike Boy
Director |
1967 | |||
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Four Stars
Director |
1967 | |||
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Group One
Director |
1967 | |||
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I, A Man
Director |
1967 | |||
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Imitation of Christ
Director, Producer |
1967 | |||
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Nude Restaurant
Cinematographer, Director, Editor |
1967 | |||
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Sunset Beach on Long Island
Director |
1967 | |||
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The Chelsea Girls
Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1967 | |||
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Tub Girls
Director |
1967 | |||
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50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities
Director |
1966 | |||
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Andy Warhol's Since
Director |
1966 | |||
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Ari & Mario
Director |
1966 | |||
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Bufferin
Director |
1966 | |||
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Camp
Director |
1966 | |||
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Closet
Director |
1966 | |||
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Eating Too Fast
Director |
1966 | |||
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Mrs. Warhol
Cinematographer, Director |
1966 | |||
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The Velvet Underground and Nico
Cinematographer, Director |
1966 | |||
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13 Most Beautiful Boys
Director |
1965 | |||
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13 Most Beautiful Women
Director |
1965 | |||
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Andy Warhol
Participant |
1965 | |||
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Beauty #2
Director |
1965 | |||
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Bitch
Director |
1965 | |||
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Drunk
Director |
1965 | |||
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Face
Director |
1965 | |||
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Hedy
Director |
1965 | |||
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Horse
Director |
1965 | |||
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Kitchen
Director |
1965 | |||
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Life of Juanita Castro
Director |
1965 | |||
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Match Girl
Actor |
1965 | |||
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More Milk Yvette
Director |
1965 | |||
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My Hustler
Cinematographer, Director |
1965 | |||
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Normal Love
Actor |
1965 | |||
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Outer and Inner Space
Director |
1965 | |||
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Paul Swan
Director |
1965 | |||
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Director |
1965 | |||
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Prison
Director |
1965 | |||
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Restaurant
Director |
1965 | |||
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Screen Test #1
Director |
1965 | |||
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Screen Test #2
Director |
1965 | |||
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Space
Director |
1965 | |||
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Suicide
Director |
1965 | |||
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Vinyl
Director |
1965 | |||
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Batman Dracula
Director |
1964 | |||
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Blow Job
Director |
1964 | |||
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Couch
Director |
1964 | |||
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Eat
Director |
1964 | |||
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Empire
Director |
1964 | |||
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Harlot
Director |
1964 | |||
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Henry Geldzahler
Director |
1964 | |||
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Mario Bandana #1
Director |
1964 | |||
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Mario Bandana #2
Director |
1964 | |||
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Soap Opera
Director |
1964 | |||
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Taylor Mead's Ass
Director |
1964 | |||
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Dance Movie
Director |
1963 | |||
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Haircut #1
Director |
1963 | |||
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Haircut #2
Director |
1963 | |||
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Haircut #3
Director |
1963 | |||
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Kiss
Director |
1963 | |||
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Screen Tests [Film Series]
Director |
1963 | |||
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Sleep
Director |
1963 | |||
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Tarzan and Jane Regained...Sort Of
Director |
1963 |