wednesday May 11th 2005
Susquehanna Art Museum
8pm, $5 donation
In conjunction with the Susquehanna Art Museum's current show "Pop and Repop" with artwork by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Harring and many more famous pop artists, Moviate is presenting three films featuring Andy Warhol and his contemporaties.
Scenes of the Life Of Andy Warhol
by Jonas Mekas (1965/82) 16mm, color, sound, 36 min.
Music: Velvet Underground, recorded in 1966. Opening segment taped at the Dom at the public performance with Nico. End section: Mass for Andy Warhol at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The film is made up of my film diaries related to Andy Warhol from the years 1965-1982. Locations are New York and Montauk: The Factory, house of George Maciunas, village gate, psychiatrist's convention, home of Stephen Shore, Warhol Estate, Montauk, etc.
The "cast" includes Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Barbara Rubin, Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Orlovsky, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, Vincent Friemont, Henry Geldzahler, Paul Morrissey, Karen Lerner, Jay Lerner, Peter Beard, John Kennedy Jr., Lee Radziwill, Tina Radziwill, Anthony Radziwill, D'Allessandro, Caroline Kennedy, Mick Jagger, Jade Jagger and many others. Completed in June, 1990.
Cassis
by Jonas Mekas (1966) 16mm, color, sound, 4-1/2 min.
A small port in South of France, a lighthouse, the sea, shot from just before the sunrise until just after the sunset, all day long, frame
by frame, a frame or two every second or every few minutes.
Seven Portraits
by Edvard Lieber (1983) 16mm, color, sound, 20-1/2 min.
". . . a staggering work of great depth, originality and poetry . . . not only a unique historical document, but a rare insight into
the souls of seven cultural icons: Willem de Kooning, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Tennessee Williams, Andy Warhol, John Cage,
and Liv Ullmann." -- Andrew Leighton 1985 Taipei International Film Festival 1984 Berlin International Film Festival 1984 Festival dei
Popoli, Florence 1984 French-American International Film Festival, Avignon 1984 Sao Paulo International Film Festival.
