Eat (film)

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Movie
Original title Eat
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 39 minutes
Rod
Director Andy Warhol
production Andy Warhol
occupation

Eat is a Underground - experimental film by Andy Warhol . It was filmed in Robert Indiana’s studio in February 1964 in 16mm format. The premiere took place on July 16, 1964 (together with Warhol's film Blow Job ) in Ruth Kligman's Washington Square Gallery in Manhattan by the film-makers' Cooperative . A four-minute excerpt (together with abstracts of Kiss , Haircut and Sleep ) of a composition by La Monte Young was shown at the New York Film Festival in September 1964.

action

The black and white - silent film into a length of 39 minutes the US Pop Art Artists Robert Indiana ago by feeding on a mushroom. Meanwhile his cat is sitting on his shoulder. According to Indiana, the recordings took place on February 2nd.

background

The friend of Warhol painting Indiana put together with this since the end of 1962 in the Stable Gallery of Eleanor Ward out. The film was inspired by the fact that Indiana had watched the film Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows by Tony Richardson with its orgiastic eating scenes on television the previous evening . As Warhol sometimes did in his earliest films (e.g. Sleep ), the film plot is not identical to the actual plot, but consists of a rhythmic montage of several of the nine 3-minute film rolls. However, this can only be recognized if one engages in the imagery and does not see the film as boring and pointless from the outset. So it is less about the depicted plot than about the uncovering of the cinematic illusion of the depicted plot and the questioning of expectations that the viewer has of the medium “film”.

Indiana took up the subject of "food" again when he created a flashing electric "Eat" sculpture for the World's Fair in New York in the spring of 1964 .

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 .

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