Screening
Kiss (1963), Eat (1964), and Blow Job (1964)
Friday, June 28, 2019
1 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater, Floor 1
Free and open to the public. First come, first served.
1 p.m. Kiss, 1963, 16mm, 54 min
2:30 p.m. Eat, 1964, 16mm, 39 min
3:30 p.m. Blow Job, 1964, 16mm, 41 min
In these early silent films, Warhol explores three different common bodily acts through a minimalistic framework. In Kiss, Warhol features thirteen different couples kissing, with each pair’s scene lasting the three or so minutes of an individual roll of film. Eat depicts Pop artist Robert Indiana slowly eating a mushroom. The film Blow Job, meanwhile, only implies the sexual act of its title. Warhol focuses the frame to a man’s face, showing his movements and reactions against a brick wall. Lit from above, the face is mostly cast in shadow.
All films screen courtesy Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film and Video Library.