Soap Opera (1964)
- Directed by
- Andy Warhol
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 46 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film watches a woman sitting in a room with a television playing ads. It is a long static shot of her reacting to the commercial interruptions.
slow-pacedexperimentalobservationalstaticmundanerepetitiveminimalistdetached
What happens
Soap Opera, subtitled The Lester Persky Story, is a 1964 feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol, starring Baby Jane Holzer, and featuring Gerard Malanga, Sam Green, and Ivy Nicholson. The subtitle was used by Warhol since he used old television advertisement footage provided by Lester Persky. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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