Warhol on Film: 4 Snapshots -- Chelsea Girls (1966)
Thursday, November 18
6:00 PM, Pre-screening Tour with Peter Nisbet, Ackland Art Museum
7:00 PM, Screening, Varsity Theatre
Chelsea Girls is perhaps the most important underground film in American history and one that is very rarely screened. Shot in 16 mm and presented in a split-screen format, with a single audio track for one side of screen, the film presents a retinue of Warhol's "superstars" in a 3-1/2 hour series of vignettes: they chat, argue, confide, shoot up, cry, and show off for the camera. Filmed at the Hotel Chelsea -- a favored New York hangout for writers, artists and bohemians - and at Warhol's Factory, the film includes appearances by Nico (of The Velvet Underground) and Edie Sedgwick. At its release, Newsweek hailed Chelsea Girls as "the Iliad of the Underground."
Free admission.
The screening of Chelsea Girls will be held at the Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, in downtown Chapel Hill. The film will be preceded by a 6:00 PM tour of the Ackland Art Museum's three current exhibitions of portraiture, including Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids, by Chief Curator Peter Nisbet.
"Warhol on Film: 4 Snapshots" was curated by Rich Cante, Faculty Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cinema at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is part of the ArtNow/CinemaNow film series, sponsored by the Ackland Art Museum in collaboration with the ScreenArts Film and Media Series and the Interdisciplinary Program in Cinema.
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