Three recently discovered experimental silent films featuring Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and The Velvet Underground offer an intriguing alternative viewpoint of life in heady 1960s Factory days.
Screened as part of NZIFF 2007
Three Films by Danny Williams 1965
A treat for Andy Warhol aficionados and hardcore experimental devotees, these recently discovered films made by Danny Williams offer an intriguing glimpse into those heady days of Warhol's studio, the Factory. The three silent films, shot on 16mm, feature Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, The Velvet Underground and other well known Factory subjects. They are quite dramatically different from Warhol's own films, making for an interesting alternative viewpoint of life in that orbit. The earliest of the films, Factory, is a montage of "happenings" in Warhol's studio, Trips and Parties, as its title suggests, documents various excursions and gatherings, and Harold Stevenson #1 and #2 is a two-part portrait of the American painter. Unseen for decades, these films were liberated from the Museum of Modern Art's Warhol collection by Danny's niece Esther Robinson, who made the documentary A Walk Into the Sea about her uncle, also featuring in this year's programme. They will be presented silent and in crisp new video transfers.