Evening Flix - Part Three - Incandescence

Ronald Nameth, Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966)
12mins, black-and-white and colour, sound, USA

John Palmer, David Weisman, Ciao! Manhattan (1972)
92mins, black-and-white and colour, sound, USA
Staring Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes, Isabel Jewell, Paul America, Viva!, Brigid Berlin, Baby Jane Holzer, Geoffrey Briggs, with Roger Vadim, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Margouleff

Edie Sedgwick features in Ronald Nameth’s memorable celluloid document of Andy Warhol’s expanded cinema event AW’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable and as the subject of John Palmer and David Weisman’s Ciao! Manhattan. Both films provide fascinating insights into the 60s’ scene in which she starred, and capture in the language of film the metaphorical and literal means by which Warhol’s first superstar’s mind was blown.

Wednesday 5 June, 6 PM
Memorial Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington
$5 ticket includes refreshments in the Adam Art Gallery between 5 and 6pm

ENDS