Batman Dracula

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Movie
Original title Batman Dracula
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 54 minutes
Rod
Director Andy Warhol
production Andy Warhol
occupation

Batman Dracula is a Underground - experimental film by Andy Warhol . It was filmed in July 1964 in Warhol's studio The Factory in 16mm format. The premiere took place on April 17, 1966 at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque (125 West 41st Street, Manhattan ).

action

The 54-minute black and white silent film shows Naomi Levine , who plays the sleeping beauty in bed. She is chosen as a victim by Dracula , played by the avant-garde filmmaker Jack Smith . The bedposts cast include David Bourdon , the art dealer Sam Green , Mario Montez and Gregory Battcock .

literature

  • Bernard Blistène (Ed.): Andy Warhol, Cinema: à l'occasion de l'Exposition Andy Warhol Rétrospective . Ed. du Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-908393-30-1 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the “Musée National d'Art Moderne, Center Georges Pompidou” from June 21 to September 10, 1990).
  • Stephen Koch: Stargazer. The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol . 3rd ed. Boyars Books, New York 1991, ISBN 0-7145-2920-6 (reprint of the London 1974 edition).
  • Debra Miller et al .: Billy Name. Stills from the Warhol Films . Prestel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1367-3 .
  • Astrid J. Ofner (Ed.): Andy Warhol - Filmmaker. A retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum October 1 to 31, 2005 . Viennale, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-282-6 .
  • Enno Patalas (Ed.): Andy Warhol and his films. A documentation . Heyne, Munich 1971.

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