Absolut Warhola (2001)

Directed by

Stanislaw Mucha

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German film crew travels to a poor region of rural Slovakia to meet the extended family of Andy Warhol. The relatives share their memories and opinions of the famous artist while the film shows their isolated, underdeveloped lives and the modest museum dedicated to him.

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What happens

Absolut Warhola is a 2001 German documentary film directed by Stanislaw Mucha about Andy Warhol's extended family, whom he never met, in rural Slovakia. The film follows the filmmakers as they travel through eastern Slovakia to interview Warhol's surviving relatives, ethnic-Rusyns living near the Polish border in Miková, and to visit the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce. The museum is shown to be in a poor state, with the museum director and staff openly soliciting donations from the audience and giving out the museum's bank account details. The living situation in the underdeveloped rural east of Slovakia prior to EU-membership is also shown. The film also notes the levels of homophobia still present in this part of the world, with several of Warhol's relatives openly criticizing the "rumours" of his sexuality (although his homosexuality is common knowledge in the West). One man even goes as far to suggest that Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist and misandrist who attempted to assassinate Warhol, was in fact a spurned former lover. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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