Match Girl

US (c) 1966 Andrew Meyer. M: The Rolling Stones: "Play With Fire", "As Tears Go By", "Get Off Of My Cloud", Martha & The Vandellas: "Nobody'll Care", "Nowhere To Run", Featuring Vivian Ruiz, Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol. Toned and tinted. 16mm, 26 min. Fine print from MoMA (archive). Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 29 March 2008. Inspired by Andersen and Renoir, with references to Marilyn Monroe (Warhol, Don't Bother to Knock) and Kim Novak (Vertigo) the film follows some premises of the fairy-tale, the lonely girl in New York, in the Factory, collapsing in the street, but rescued and maybe becoming somebody in Europe.