Directed by Andy Warhol and produced by Paul Morrissey, Blue Movie He immerses himself in the daily life of lovers Viva and Louis Waldon (their true names), within a Manhattan department. In the course of random discussions, both serious about Vietnam's society and war in the shower, the actors dot the film with unimulated sexual scenes. Filmed in October 1968 in the department of the art critic David Bourdon in Greenwich Village, Blue Movie It is considered as the first film of this type that was broadcast. There is a game with the camera as the characters realize their intrusive presence. As a reaction to the Vietnam War, sex becomes the last act of political protest. Andy Warhol explains what is «A film about the Vietnam War and what we can do about it«. The characteristic blue tone of the film is, casually, the result of the reaction of the filtered light through the plane on the film of tungsten used. Seized by the New York Police in July 1969, the film was convicted by the Criminal Court for Obscenity and Inadequacy for its dissemination. Andy Warhol revoked this censorship by publishing Blue Movie In the form of a book with Grove Press, with the dialogues and images of the film.
Trash1970
Written and directed by Paul Morrissey, under the production funded by Andy Warhol, Trash It is the second part of the trilogy Flesh, Trash, Heat. It shows the problematic relationship between Joe Smith (Joe Dallessandro) and his Holly girlfriend (Holly Woodlawn). The separate couple, who lives in a basement of Lower East Side In New York, he suffers from Joe's heroine addiction and his drug -induced impotence. Trash It shows crudely the decline of the use of intravenous drugs, sex and frontal nudity. Sometimes considered moralistic, Morrissey and Warhol's film breaks the myth of glamor of drug use, showing the main actor at his worst time, with an overdose in front of a high -class couple played by Jane (Jane Forth) and Bruce (Bruce Pecheur). Brushing parody, Trash juxtaposes the most incongruous and shocking human behaviors with the most banal. This second part quickly became a great public success.
Article originally published in Ad France.
Translation and adaptation of Fernanda Toral.