How Andy Made A Movie...True Uncut Tales From The Factory People Archive
Monday, June 9, 2014 at 06:23PM 
True Uncut Tales from Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory give us valuable and entertaining insight into the psyche of the artist’s life during his most prolific and entertaining period, the Sixties Silver Factory era, when he was making art, making avant-garde movies, making history.
‘How Andy Made A Movie’ takes us from Warhol’s first forays into filmmaking in 1964, beginning with Sleep (8 hours), Empire (24 hours) and the ‘Screen Tests’ (over 400 of them) and including ‘Tarzan’, ‘Batman/Dracula’, ‘Horse’ and many other buried gems.
In 1965 Warhol discovered sound and continued his own unique way of filmmaking, with the combustible mix of divas, drug addicts, hustlers, lunatics and lost souls that would create an unforgettable film library of Cinema Verité. His experiment would ultimately lead to violence, ending abruptly when he was shot and grievously injured by radical feminist Valerie Solanis over a misplaced screenplay.
A tale told by those who were there, Andy Warhol’s Factory People.
Trailer:
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True Uncut Tales From The Factory People Archive is the sub-title for this film, the first of a series. Based on well over fifty hours of interviews and hundreds of photos and clips, each film in this series could never make it to television as the subject matter is, for the most part, raw and sometimes shocking but highly entertaining and informative especially for students of the filmmaking process.
The "How Andy" Four-Part Series Trailer...
"How Andy Made A Movie" features rarely seen clips of Andy and Paul shooting San Diego Surf in La Jolla, California, news footage from CBS related to underground filmmaking in New York in the early sixties, and an interview with Warhol Superstar Edie Sedgwick. The story is told by various Superstars and Factory People in their own words. Underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas, the director who helped get Andy turned on to making films, relates the various stages that Andy went through to arrive at films like Chelsea Girls. Interviews with many Warhol Superstars and original Factory People flesh out the story. Photos by Billy Name, Nat Finkelstein and others who were there for Andy’s productions illustrate the film.
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