The man who filmed the un-filmable: Warhol's mask finally slips.
David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, broadened his horizons in the early 1970s by making high-profile documentaries for ATV. With his standing among the artistic community, Bailey was given unprecedented access to Pop Art legend Andy Warhol and his followers, in an attempt to penetrate behind the expressionless exterior of a man who was one of the most controversial figures of his generation.
Direction
Bailey's insider access dissolves the fourth wall completely.
Editing
Raw vérité cuts that refuse to tidy up the mess.
Director
David Bailey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bailey shot this in one week at the Factory, using only available light and his own 16mm camera.
This aired months before Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas; the factory innocence captured here is already elegiac.
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