Harlot

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Movie
Original title Harlot
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1965
length 67 minutes
Rod
Director Andy Warhol
script Ronald Tavel
production Andy Warhol
occupation

Harlot ( whore ) is a Underground - experimental film by Andy Warhol . It was in December 1964 in Warhol's studio The Factory in the 16-mm shot format. The premiere took place in January 1965 in Café A-Go-Go , the premiere on March 8, 1965 in the Film Makers' Cinematheque (125 West 41st Street, Manhattan ).

action

Warhol's first black and white - sound film shows a length of 67 minutes the transvestite Mario Montez in the role of Jean Harlow . He / she sits on the sofa and eats one banana after the other, Carol Koshinskie sits next to them and stares in front of himself. Behind the sofa, the factory's famous “red couch ”, Malanga and Fagan stand in silence. From the off you can hear the voices of Fainlight, Name and Tavel talking about all kinds of things.

background

Harlot not only marks the first use of sound in Warhol's filmmaking, but also the beginning of the collaboration with the author Ronald Tavel as a screenwriter . Warhol had met Tavel, who had previously worked with Jack Smith , at a poetry reading in the New York Café Le Metro and invited him to the Factory. It is also Warhol's first film with Montez to feature the travesty of famous Hollywood actresses (see the films Camp , Hedy and More Milk, Yvette ).

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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