Films byTexts by Andy Warhol
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8.02.2023
Realism Is Always Neo-, Sur-, Super-, Hyper-

Seeing With Photographic Devices
Frieda Grafe 1979
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    Neorealist films did not seem more realistic because of the masses, the common people, the everyday life. The bourgeois-novel individuals and their psychological analysis are redundant because stories no longer need to be made convincingly plausible. But the old relationship is not merely reversed; the documentary does not gain the upper hand at the expense of the narrative. Rossellini neither relies on the fantastic coincidences of surrealist aesthetics, nor does he leave everything to devices, as cinéma vérité later did. His gaze and that of the camera are combined. A new reality only comes into view through a new way of perceiving.

    note EN
    19.11.2021
    Trouble by Gus Van Sant / Boca

    Gus Van Sant, American filmmaker known for My Own Private Idaho (1991), Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003) and Paranoid Park (2007), is presenting a theatre production in DE SINGEL in Antwerp.

    Article NL FR
    24.06.2020
    Andy Warhol, inventeur du cinéma

    Il faudra pourtant bien un jour rendre la place à Andy Warhol qui est la sienne, celle d’un pionnier du cinéma. L’inventeur brouillon et généreux qui en très peu d'années – quatre, cinq – d’une activité boulimique, enthousiaste, entièrement nourrie par l’évidence et la simplicité du désir et de rien d'autre, a recréé à son propre usage tout un univers de cinéma, dans sa pratique concrète comme dans sa cosmogonie, imposant qu’on pourrait réinventer toujours, tout le temps, toutes les règles du cinéma.

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    24.06.2020
    Andy Warhol, uitvinder van de cinema

    Ooit zullen we Andy Warhol de plaats moeten geven die hem als pionier van de cinema toekomt. De verwarde en vrijgevige uitvinder die slechts in enkele jaren – vier, vijf – van vraatzuchtige, enthousiaste activiteit, volledig gevoed door de evidentie en de eenvoud van het verlangen en door niets anders, voor eigen gebruik een heel filmisch universum heeft gereconstrueerd, zowel in zijn concrete praktijk als in zijn kosmogonie, dat stelt dat men altijd, de hele tijd, alle regels van de cinema opnieuw kon uitvinden.

    FILM
    Sleep
    Andy Warhol, 1964, 321’

    “Andy Warhol is taking cinema back to its origins, to the days of Lumière, for a rejuvenation and a cleansing. In his work, he has abandoned all the ‘cinematic’ form and subject adornments that cinema had gathered around itself until now.

    Compilation EN
    25.01.2017
    On Sleep

    A strange thing occurs. The world becomes transposed, intensified, electrified. We see it sharper than before. Not in dramatic, rearranged contexts and meanings, not in the service of something else [...] but as pure as it is in itself: eating as eating, sleeping as sleeping, haircut as haircut.