Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Director Ric Burns
Countries United States
Duration 240 min
Synopsis
No artist of the second half of the twentieth century was more famous – or in the end more famously misunderstood – than Andy Warhol: at once the most accessible and enigmatic, straightforward and elusive, naive and savagely ironic artist of his time. “Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film” is a four-hour riveting and often deeply moving film portrait of the most important artist of the second half of the twentieth century, set within the turbulent and constantly changing context of his life and times. Combining penetrating on-camera interviews and never-before-seen still and archival motion picture footage with the testimony of Warhol's bewilderingly vast body of work itself, the film is the first to exploit in depth the immense Warhol archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
No artist of the second half of the twentieth century was more famous – or in the end more famously misunderstood – than Andy Warhol: at once the most accessible and enigmatic, straightforward and elusive, naive and savagely ironic artist of his time. “Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film” is a four-hour riveting and often deeply moving film portrait of the most important artist of the second half of the twentieth century, set within the turbulent and constantly changing context of his life and times. Combining penetrating on-camera interviews and never-before-seen still and archival motion picture footage with the testimony of Warhol's bewilderingly vast body of work itself, the film is the first to exploit in depth the immense Warhol archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.