Sept. 11, 1964 - Pop movies, representing modern art in one of its wilder forms, have found a niche in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Beginning next week, the New York Film Festival will show a quartet of films by the pop artist, Andy Warhol (left), as a special display on the Grand Promenade at Philharmonic Hall.
They will be projected continuously from 5:30 p.m. until midnight each day during the festival, which runs from Monday through Sept. 26. To screen the films, Lincoln Center has acquired four of the new Fairchild 400 machines — small box-type projectors resembling television sets, designed to make it easy to show 8 mm. movies in the home.
Warhol, whose movies are to be shown, is best known for his facsimiles of Brillo boxes.
Warhol’s movies are as original as his other art. He likes to focus his camera on something he considers worth photographing and let the camera roll until the film runs out.
His “Eat” is a contemplative shot of another pop artist, Robert Indiana, eating a mushroom. “Kiss” consists of several closeups of couples kissing. “Haircut” is an intimate view of a man having his hair cut, lock by lock.
“Sleep,” Mr. Warhol’s most controversial movie, is a six-hour record of a man having a good night’s sleep. The camera remains on him throughout the night, with the camera angle changing at the end of each reel.
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