Blow job (film)
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Original title | Blow job |
Country of production | United States |
Publishing year | 1964 |
length | 35 minutes |
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Director | Andy Warhol |
production | Andy Warhol |
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Blow Job is a Underground - experimental film by Andy Warhol . It was filmed in 16mm format in Warhol's studio The Factory in January 1964 . It premiered on July 16, 1964 (together with Warhol's film Eat ) at Ruth Kligman's Washington Square Gallery on Broadway in Manhattan .
action
The black and white - silent film into a length of 35 minutes DeVeren Bookwalter ago, a fellatio (ger .: blow job offers). You can only see his face and part of the upper body in a static camera shot. The activity mentioned in the title itself is not shown directly.
background
Warhol originally intended to cast Charles Rydell , but he thought the whole thing was a joke and did not appear on location. It is considered relatively certain that the person who performed the fellatio, which is not shown, was New York professor Willard Maas , husband of filmmaker Marie Menken . Opinions about the film have been divided from the start. It can be viewed as mere pornography - some viewers left the premiere during the performance - or as culturally and historically valuable because it was one of the first film documents to play with an obviously homosexual act.
literature
- Enno Patalas (ed.): Andy Warhol and his films: A documentary . Heyne, Munich 1971, ISBN 0-200-41991-9 .
- Stephen Koch: Stargazer. The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol . London 1974; Updated reissue by Marion Boyars, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7145-2920-6 .
- Bernard Blistène (Ed.): Andy Warhol, Cinema: à l'occasion de l'Exposition Andy Warhol Rétrospective (21 juin - 10 septembre 1990) organized à Paris par le Musée National d'Art Moderne au Center Georges Pompidou . Ed. du Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-908393-30-1 .
- Debra Miller: Billy Name: Stills from the Warhol films . Prestel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1367-3 .
- Astrid Johanna Ofner (Ed.): Andy Warhol - Filmmaker. A retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum October 1 to 31, 2005 . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-282-6 .
Web links
- Blow Job in the Internet Movie Database (English)