Chelsea Girls (1965)

Directed by

Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

3h 15m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows a series of vignettes following Andy Warhol's group of performers at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. It uses a split screen and shifting between color and black and white footage.

experimentalvoyeuristicimprovisationalslow-paceddisjointedrawintimatelo-fi

What happens

Chelsea Girls is a 1966 American experimental underground film directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey. Noted for its split-screen presentation and alternating use of color and black-and-white footage, the film features a series of loosely connected vignettes centered on Warhol's "superstars", many of whom were filmed inside New York's Chelsea Hotel. Upon its release, Chelsea Girls became Warhol's first commercial success and is regarded as a landmark of underground cinema for its unconventional structure, improvisational performances, and voyeuristic style. The original cut runs at just over three hours long. In 2024, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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