Horse (film)

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Movie
Original title Horse
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1965
length 105 minutes
Rod
Director Andy Warhol
script Ronald Tavel
production Andy Warhol
camera Andy Warhol
occupation

Horse is a Underground - experimental film by Andy Warhol . It was filmed in Warhol's studio, The Factory, in 16mm format in March 1965 . The premiere took place on August 28, 1965 in the Astor Place Playhouse by the Film-makers 'Cooperative , the premiere on November 22, 1965 at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque (125 West 41st Street, Manhattan ).

action

The black and white - sound film shows a length of 105 minutes (70 minutes in the later version) is a hay-eating horse and several cowboys , who are talking, poker play and beat up. The film action is undermined in several places by people who step into the camera's field of vision.

background

The film is a parody of the commercial western films made in Hollywood . He addresses the subliminal homoeroticism in this genre, which usually does without actresses and only shows "tough men". This makes him one of the first anti-Westerns . The 1968 film Lonesome Cowboys is a later western parody of Warhol .

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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