Editing Andy Warhol (section)

===Filmography===
{{Main|Andy Warhol filmography}}
[[File:Empire Screenshot Warhol.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the 1965 film [[Empire (1964 film)|''Empire'']]|alt= Grainy, black-and-white still frame of the illuminated Empire State Building against the night sky]]
Warhol attended the 1962 premiere of the static composition by [[La Monte Young]] called ''[[Trio for Strings]]'' and subsequently created his famous series of static films. Filmmaker [[Jonas Mekas]], who accompanied Warhol to the premiere, claims Warhol's static films were directly inspired by that performance.<ref>{{cite book|first=Uwe |last=Husslein |title=Pop goes art: Andy Warhol & Velvet Underground |publisher=Wuppertal |year=1990 |oclc=165575494}}{{Page needed|date=August 2010}}</ref> Between 1963 and 1968, Warhol made more than 600 [[underground film]]s, including short black-and-white "[[Screen Tests|screen test]]" portraits of Factory visitors.<ref>Schaffner (1999), p. 73.</ref><ref name=":26" /> Many of his films premiered at the [[New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre]] in [[Greenwich Village]] and [[55th Street Playhouse]] in Midtown Manhattan.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 18, 1968 |title=Warhol Theater |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-times-the-new-andy-warhol-garr/159151180/ |work=The Tampa Times |pages=4–B}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |date=May 6, 1969 |title=Film: Lonesome Warhol:Two Theaters Showing Latest, a Western |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/05/06/archives/film-lonesome-warholtwo-theaters-showing-latest-a-western.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

His early [[experimental film]]s were silent observations of very typical daily life. ''[[Sleep (1964 film)|Sleep]]'' (1964) monitors poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Giorno |first=John |date=September 3, 2020 |title=In a New Memoir, John Giorno Recalls the Night Andy Warhol Conceived of His Epic Anti-Film While Watching Him Sleep—Read an Excerpt |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/john-giorno-great-demon-kings-excerpt-1905632 |access-date=August 23, 2021 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Kiss (1964 film)|Kiss]]'' (1964) shows couples kissing.<ref name=":24">{{Cite news |last=Gruen |first=John |date=July 28, 1968 |title=The Mystery That Is Andy Warhol |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-the-mystery-that-i/157852964/ |work=Los Angeles Calendar |pages=44}}</ref> The film ''[[Eat (film)|Eat]]'' (1964) consists of an artist [[Robert Indiana]] eating a mushroom for 45 minutes.<ref name=":24" /> The 35-minute film ''[[Blow Job (1964 film)|Blow Job]]'' (1964) is one continuous shot of the face of [[DeVeren Bookwalter]] supposedly receiving [[oral sex]] from poet [[Willard Maas]], although the camera never tilts down to prove this.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Watson |first=Steven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJowwi8QvpwC&q=Willard%20Maas%20blow%20job%20warhol |title=Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties |date=October 21, 2003 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-679-42372-0 |pages=159 |language=en}}</ref>

For these efforts, Mekas presented Warhol with the Independent Film Award of 1964, "the underground's answer to [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]."<ref name=":27">{{Cite news |last=McGrady |first=Mike |date=December 2, 1964 |title=The Underground Movie |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-andy-warhol-rec/158170848/ |work=Newsday |pages=38W}}</ref> ''[[Newsday]]''<nowiki/>'s [[Mike McGrady]] hailed Warhol as "the [[Cecil B. DeMille]] of the Off-Hollywood movie makers."<ref name=":27" />

''[[Batman Dracula]]'' is a 1964 film that was produced and directed by Warhol, without the permission of [[DC Comics]].<ref name=":25">{{Cite news |last=Travis |first=Ben |date=April 25, 2016 |title=Batman: 10 things you didn't know |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/18/batman-10-things-you-didnt-know/ |access-date=October 26, 2024 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> It was screened only at his art exhibits. A fan of the ''Batman'' series, Warhol's movie was an "homage" and is considered the first appearance of a blatantly [[campy]] Batman. The film was until recently thought to have been lost, until scenes from the picture were shown at some length in the 2006 documentary ''[[Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis]]''.<ref name=":25" />

Warhol's 1965 film ''[[Empire (1964 film)|Empire]]'' is an eight-hour view of the [[Empire State Building]], and shortly after he released ''[[Vinyl (1965 film)|Vinyl]]'' (1965), an adaptation of [[Anthony Burgess]]' popular [[dystopia]]n novel ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. Other films record improvised encounters between Factory regulars such as Brigid Berlin, Viva, Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Ondine, Nico and Jackie Curtis. The underground artist Jack Smith appears in the film ''Camp''.

Warhol's most popular and critically successful film was ''[[Chelsea Girls]]'' (1966). It was the first underground film of the 1960s to reach widespread popularity and capture the attention of notable film critics.<ref name=":24" /> The film was highly innovative in that it consisted of two [[16 mm]]-films being projected simultaneously, with two different stories being shown in tandem. From the projection booth, the sound would be raised for one film to elucidate that "story" while it was lowered for the other. The multiplication of images evoked Warhol's seminal silkscreen works of the early 1960s.

The 1969 film ''[[Blue Movie]]''—in which Warhol superstars Viva and [[Louis Waldon]] make love in bed—was Warhol's last film as director.<ref name="Canby-1969">{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |title=Movie Review – Blue Movie (1968) Screen: Andy Warhol's 'Blue Movie' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9507E5D91738E63ABC4A51DFB1668382679EDE |date=July 22, 1969 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 29, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Canby-1969-2">{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |title=Warhol's Red Hot and 'Blue' Movie. D1. Print. (behind paywall) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/10/archives/warhols-red-hot-and-blue-movie-warhols-red-hot-and-blue-movie.html |date=August 10, 1969 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 29, 2015 }}</ref> It is a seminal film in the [[Golden Age of Porn]], and at the time it was controversial for its frank approach to a sexual encounter.<ref name="Comenas-2005">{{cite web |last=Comenas |first=Gary |title=Blue Movie (1968) |url=http://www.warholstars.org/andy-warhol-blue-movie.html |year=2005 |work=WarholStars.org |access-date=December 29, 2015 |archive-date=December 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151230082332/http://www.warholstars.org/andy-warhol-blue-movie.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="IMDb-1972">{{cite web |title=Blue Movie (1969) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062745 |publisher=[[IMDb]] |date=February 10, 1972 |access-date=December 29, 2015 |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310230836/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062745/ |url-status=live }}{{better source needed|date=April 2022}}</ref> ''Blue Movie'' was publicly screened in New York City in 2005, for the first time in more than 30 years.<ref name="WarholStars.org-2005">{{cite web|title=Blue Movie + Viva At NY Film Festival |url=http://www.warholstars.org/news/october2005.html |date=October 2005 |work=WarholStars.org |access-date=January 20, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027085125/https://www.warholstars.org/news/october2005.html |archive-date=October 27, 2015 }}</ref>

[[File:Flesh (1968) Joe Dallesandro and Louis Waldon (1200 dpi).jpg|thumb|[[Joe Dallesandro]] in ''[[Flesh (1968 film)|Flesh]]'' (1968), directed by [[Paul Morrissey]]]]
In the wake of the 1968 shooting, Warhol's assistant director, [[Paul Morrissey]], took over most of the film-making chores for the Factory collective, steering Warhol-branded cinema towards more mainstream, narrative-based, B-movie [[exploitation film|exploitation]] fare with ''[[Flesh (1968 film)|Flesh]]'' (1968), ''[[Trash (1970 film)|Trash]]'' (1970) and ''[[Heat (1972 film)|Heat]]'' (1972). All of these films, including the later ''[[Andy Warhol's Dracula]]'' (1973) and ''[[Andy Warhol's Frankenstein]]'' (1974), were far more mainstream than anything Warhol as a director had attempted. Joe Dallesandro starred in these latter films, which are now considered [[cult classics]]. The last Warhol-produced film, ''[[Andy Warhol's Bad|Bad]],'' starred [[Carroll Baker]] and was made without either Morrissey or Dallesandro.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Horne |first=Jed |date=September 27, 1976 |title=Andy Warhol Thinks Everybody and Everything Is 'Great' Except His Latest Movie—it's 'Bad' |url=https://people.com/archive/andy-warhol-thinks-everybody-and-everything-is-great-except-his-latest-movie-its-bad-vol-6-no-13/ |access-date=April 7, 2024 |website=People |language=en}}</ref> It was directed by Warhol's boyfriend Jed Johnson, who had assisted Morrissey on several films.<ref name=":2" />

Most of the films directed by Warhol were pulled out of circulation by Warhol and the people around him who ran his business. With assistance from Warhol in 1984, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art began to restore his films, which are occasionally shown at museums and film festivals.<ref name=":26">{{Cite web |title=Andy Warhol Film Project |url=https://whitney.org/research/andy-warhol-film-project |access-date=April 8, 2024 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref> In 2022, the Andy Warhol Museum announced the launch of The Warhol TV, a streaming platform that allows users to watch free museum content and to rent a selection of Warhol's films from its collection.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ArtDependence |date=March 29, 2022 |title=The Warhol Museum Launches Warhol TV, an Online Streaming Platform |url=https://artdependence.com/articles/the-warhol-museum-launches-warhol-tv-an-online-streaming-platform/ |access-date=November 9, 2024 |website=artdependence.com |language=en}}</ref>