ANDY WARHOL:A DOCUMENTARY FILM

No artist of the second half of the 20th century was more famous – or in the end more famously misunderstood – than Andy Warhol: at once the most accessible and enigmatic, straightforward and elusive, naive and savagely ironic artist of his time. Grasping, as no one before or since, the function of fame in a mass society, he forced us to confront and re-envision the world we live in.The film exploits in depth the immense Warhol archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the complete spectrum of his astonishing artistic output, stretching across five decades from the late 40s to his untimely death in the 80s, his background and history, his family life and formative experiences in Pittsburgh, his crucial experiences as a commercial artist in New York, and his trajectory across three of the most transforming decades of the century.