I’m not a fan of Warhol’s films. I don’t understand
the point of the Screen Tests or making so many long static films like Empire
which goes for eight hours. Who actually has watched the whole thing? It sounds
like the sort of thing to make just to say you made it for an artistic
statement work or something.
Other than that, I don’t really understand the
point in showing eight hours of a building or eight hours of anything really.
OK maybe I can understand doing it once, making a multiple hour film composed
of a static shot. But when I read that Warhol once made a 25 hour film, I mean
c’mon man. And even the few films of his I’ve seen with sound, like My Hustler
or vinyl, they seem amateurish or maybe they are actually so avant-garde that
they seem amateurish? Did I see the wrong films or do I just miss the point? I
don’t know…
"I’m not a fan of Warhol’s films."
ReplyDeleteThat is not relevant to academic study, as I've said. Not interested in hearing from fans, per se, or I would have shown Episode IV, etc.
You obviously didn't make the least bit of effort to TRY and understand what you don't know - kind of a waste of money and time. I tried to explain their importance from a historical and theoretical vantage point.