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Warhol Film Season


As part of The Eternal Now the Model is screening a number of films by Warhol and other filmmakers.  This season of films aims to shed light on Warhol’s practice as an underground filmmaker and on the Factory as an space for artistic collaboration and experimentation.

*Season Tickets are available from €20 which permits entrance to all screenings.


Sun 14 Oct | 3pm | €5*

Chelsea Girls,  | Paul Morrisey & Andy Warhol | 3hrs 30 mins
Chelsea Girls was Warhol’s first commercially successful film. Starring many of his factory ‘superstars’, the film follows the lives of several of the young women who live at the Chelsea Hotel in New York.


Sun 21 Oct | 3pm | €5

Factory Girl, 2006 | George Hickenlooper | 1 hr 39 mins
Fictionalised story of sixties socialite and Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick, After Sedgwick dropped out of art school in Cambridge in 1965, she moved to New York and met Warhol, who promised to make her a star. The movie portrays her rise to fame and subsequent downfall into obscurity


Mon 29 Oct | 3pm | €5   TBC

Andy Warhol, 1963 | Marie Menken | 22 mins
A day in the life of Andy Warhol, shot in documentary style and condensed into just 22 minutes by artist and experimental filmmaker Marie Menken, star of ’The Life of Juanita Castro’ shown in The Eternal Now.

Lonesome Cowboys
, 1968 | Andy Warhol | 1hr 49 mins
Warhol’s location ‘western’ in which a bunch of strangers mill around a deserted town.  The film stars regular Warhol collaborators Viva and Joe Dellasandro


Sun 4 Nov | 3pm | €5

I Shot Andy Warhol, 1996 | Mary Harron | 1hr 43 mins
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas, a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but after he continued to ignore her she shot him.

Sun 11 Nov | 3pm | €5
Chelsea Girls,  | Paul Morrisey & Andy Warhol | 3hrs 30 mins
Chelsea Girls was Warhol’s first commercially successful film. Starring many of his factory ‘superstars’, the film follows the lives of several of the young women who live at the Chelsea Hotel in New York.


Sun 18 Nov | 3pm | €5

Visions of Warhol, 1963-1990 | Jonas Mekas, Willard Maas, Marie Menken, Ronald Nameth | 1hr 20 mins
Visions of Warhol presents scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by four pioneer avant-garde filmmakers and close friends of the Pop artist.

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol| Jonas Mekas,| 1964 | 12 min
Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations  Willard Maas, 1966 | 4 min
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol | Jonas Mekas|1963-1990, 35 min
Andy Warhol  | Marie Menken, | 1965,| 18 min
Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable. | Ronald Nameth | 1967 | 12 min


Sun 25 Nov | 3pm | €5

Andy Warhol, 1963 | Marie Menken | 22 mins
A day in the life of Andy Warhol, shot in documentary style and condensed into just 22 minutes by artist and experimental filmmaker Marie Menken, star of ’The Life of Juanita Castro’ shown in The Eternal Now.


Lonesome Cowboys
, 1968 | Andy Warhol | 1hr 49 mins
Warhol’s location ‘western’ in which a bunch of strangers mill around a deserted town.  The film stars regular Warhol collaborators Viva and Joe Dellasandro


Sun 2 Dec| 2.00pm | €5

Andy Warhol; A Documentary Film,2006 | Ric Burns | 2 hrs 40 mins
Ric Burns’ epic portrait of Warhol unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. (15 minute interval)

Sun 16 Dec | 3pm | €5
A Walk into the Sea; Danny Williams  and the Warhol Factory,
2007 | Esther Robinson | 1 hr 15 mins
Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams - Warhol's onetime lover and collaborator - offers an exploration of the Factory era, and a compelling inquiry into Williams's mysterious disappearance at age 27.


Warhol Art Films

Two of the films shown as part of The Eternal Now; Sleep and Empire, shall receive a full length cinema screenings in The Black Box on the following dates:

Empire I Sat 3 Nov I 10.30am I 8hrs 5 mins
Sleep I Sat 17 Nov I10.30am I 5hrs 35 mins

Please note that access to these screenings are free of charge and you may come and go during the screening.

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