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Directed by | Andy Warhol |
Produced by | Andy Warhol |
Starring | DeVeren Bookwalter Willard Maas |
Edited by | martin |
Music by | jingle bells |
Release date | 1964 |
Running time | 35 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent film |
Blow Job is a
Despite the salacious title, the film shows only the expression on the young man's face; the implied sexual act itself is not seen. It is not stated whether it is a male or a female performing the act, and the viewer must assume that fellatio is occurring. It has also been speculated that the salaciousness is entirely in the title, and that no fellatio was actually being performed.
Making
The identity of the person performing the act is disputed, though it is widely reported, by actor
However, when Warhol set up the film shoot at The Factory on a Sunday, Rydell failed to show up. Warhol phoned Rydell at Hill's suite at the Algonquin Hotel and asked where Rydell was. Rydell replied that he thought Warhol was kidding, and had no intention of appearing in such a film. When he declined Andy used "a good looking kid that happened to be hanging around the Factory that day", who was later identified as Bookwalter. By that time, the five boys had departed, and Maas was pressed into service (Warhol's notoriously poor memory kept the five boys in place for the version given in the much later book POPism).
In 1966, Warhol filmed a sequel, Eating Too Fast (originally titled Blow Job #2) which runs 67 minutes with sound. It features art critic and writer Gregory Battcock as the recipient.
Commentary
According to Peter Gidal the film distances the viewer from the experience it purportedly depicts, "Sometimes the young actor looks bored, sometimes as if he is thinking, sometimes as if he is aware of the camera, sometimes as if he is not."[3] Douglas Crimp states that after a few minutes "it becomes clear that we will see nothing more than the repetition, with slight variations, of what we've already seen". This frees the mind to look in a different way. Likewise the sexual act has the effect of distracting the actor from the presence of the camera, creating a unique kind of unself-consciousness. The film becomes "a lesson in how to produce a really beautiful portrait without saying 'cheese'!"[4]
Critic Roy Grundmann argues that "Blow Job‘s self reflexive devices create a new kind of spectatorial address that dislodges audiences from their contemplative positions in a number of ways. Blow Job‘s reflexivity makes spectators intensely aware that seeing a film makes projecting onto and investing into an image a part of oneself which is also a socialized acculturated act". Grundmann further claims that "viewers oscillate between an awareness of their contingency on larger scheme and the promise of ocularcentric mastery of the image".[5]
See also
References
- ^ Blow Job
- ^ Andy Warhol, POPism, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980) pp 64, 65
- ^ Peter Gidal, Andy Warhol - Blow Job, Afterall Books, 2008, blurb.
- ^ Douglas Crimp, Our Kind of Movie: The Films of Andy Warhol, MIT Press, 2012, p.4
- ^ Roy Grundmann, Andy Warhol's Blow Job, Temple University Press, 2003, p.19
External links
Further reading
- Gidal, Peter. Andy Warhol's Blow Job. London: Afterall Books, 2008.