AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (US, 1964, Jonas Mekas)

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When Andy Warhol refused to appear in public to accept the 1964 Film Culture magazines annual Independent Film Award, Jonas Mekas made this mock “documentary” of Warhol and a group of his superstars at the Factory. They are presented a basket of fruit which they then consume in slow motion.

"The Independent Film Award for 1964 is presented to Andy Warhol. We see Andy among his leading stars, Baby Jane Holzer, Gerry Malanga, Ivy Nicholsen, and we see the the editor of Film Culture, Jonas Mekas, presenting the award: a basket of fruit — mushrooms, carrots and apples, bananas — which then, they all eat with great pleasure." –Jonas Mekas

“I can recall seeing only one Warhol film which was wholly pastoral and un-neurotic in feeling, which contained or provoked none of these or other disturbing implications; and that turned out not to be a Warhol film at all, as I thought at the time, but a kind of homage, by Jonas Mekas, to Warhol — really a work of Mekas' own sensibility though seemingly in the official Warhol style. When I saw AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL I was hung for days on the kind of imagination revolutionary enough at once to conceive of a film as something so simple and to make that simplicity so pleasurable." —James Stoller, Film Quarterly.

AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL
(US, 1964)

Director:Jonas Mekas

  • 12 minutes
  • 16mm
  • Black and white
  • Sound
Distribution Format/s: DVD, DSL/Downloadable 1080p .mp4 file on server

Published By: Re:Voir Video

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