Space

US 1965. D: Andy Warhol. SC: Ronald Tavel. Starring Edie Sedgwick, Eric Anderson, Ed Hennessey, Dorothy Dean, Norman Levine. 16mm, b&w, sound, 67 min. Print: MoMA (Distribution). Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 29 March 2008. Forbidden montage is the Andy Warhol principle, but this time the camera is moving all the time. Eight people in the same space, linked by singer-guitarplayer Eric Anderson and dazzled by Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) in love with her mirror image. Reality cinema.

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.

Harlot

Andy Warhol: Harlot (US 1964). IMDb summary: "Jean Harlow look-alike Harlot (Mario Montez), Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-screen voices of Billy Name, Ronald Tavel, and Harry Fainlight discuss various topics."

US 1964. D: Andy Warhol. SC: Ronald Tavel. With: Mario Montez, Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, Carol Koshinskie. 16 mm, bw, sound, 67 min. Print from MoMA. Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 26 March 2008. A single shot by an immobile camera on two couch potatoes (Montez, Koshinskie) and two men behind the sofa (Malanga, Fagan). The action: Montez eats bananas, Koshinskie holds a white pussycat, Malanga smokes cigarettes and provides Montez with bananas. Fagan stares at the camera, and Koshinskie also looks in the distance. Ronald Tavel, Billy Name and Harry Fainlight comment on the action and anything on the voiceover track.

Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations

US 1967. D: Willard Maas. 16mm, colour, sound, 5 min. Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 26 March 2008. Andy Warhol's silver pillows dance in the Castelli gallery.