ANDY WARHOL 5
Poor Little Rich Girl
featuring Edie Sedgwick
Friday, April 24, 2009, 8:00 pm
at
Eyedrum
Film Love continues its exploration of the influential but rarely seen films
of Andy Warhol
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“beautiful,
sad, unrehearsed…surpasses everything that the cinéma vérité has done till now”
– Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice
During a brief but startlingly productive period in mid-1965, Andy Warhol and
Edie Sedgwick forged one of
cinema’s most intriguing and complex director/star relationships.
Charismatic and mercurial, Sedgwick displayed vulnerability and resilience in
equal measure on the screen. Entering his first great phase of sound filmmaking,
Warhol devised a series of onscreen situations that challenged Sedgwick’s
talents to the fullest, and revealed her remarkable personality, style, and
beauty.
Poor Little Rich Girl was made as part of Warhol’s idea for a twenty-four hour
film of a day in the life of Edie Sedgwick. It was his first sound movie to use
no script at all, instead relying on Sedgwick’s natural vivaciousness and
volubility to create this portrait of her on a typical morning. The resulting
film is part documentary, part performance, part narrative – a unique,
uncategorizable, and fascinating combination.
Like all of Warhol’s films from this period, Poor Little Rich Girl has never
been released on video in this country and can only be seen in its
original 16mm film format.
Program:
Poor Little Rich Girl (1965), 16mm, 66 minutes
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| Edie Sedgwick in Poor
Little Rich Girl (1965) |