FREE ON YOUTUBE Andy Warhol - The Chelsea Girls

FREE ON YOUTUBE (YOU FIND THE WHOLE FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) Warhol is best understood on a Sunday morning on Weser Street. That's how it goes: If you break Andy Warhol's art down into its individual parts, none of them have any intrinsic value. To find Chelsea Girls great, you must first believe that Chelsea Girls is definitely a great masterpiece (= made by Andy Warhol). The film itself can't convince you at all. Three and a half hours split screen. Probably just improvised. Badly filmed and hardly reworked. Warhol has no message. He doesn't want to tell us anything. He has no technique either. If Chelsea Girls had been shot by Herbert Müller from Berlin Reinickendorf, Andy Warhol would probably have agreed as well: This film is simply bad. To understand Andy Warhol and Chelsea Girls, you now go back to Weser Strasse, Neukölln. All full of party lions. Fashionably up to date. It is hard for us reasonable people to criticize them because they are much better dressed and have a high social acceptance. Just like Andy Warhol back then. We do not understand Warhol, but we believe we should do it better. It is consensus. That's why we still say at parties today that we like Chelsea Girls. We have weakened our senses, whether a film is good or bad. Uniform. Warhol's movie has neither title nor credits. The soundtrack is unclear, hard to understand. It starts in black and white and ends in color. The film is either overexposed or underexposed. Sometimes it zooms in on an unimportant detail (and ignores the important ones). Warhol's superstars like to undress, are sadistic, masochistic or addicted to drugs. Warhol tricks us, makes his movie seem pregnant with meaning and profound. Above all, it's fashionable. That's what every Neuköllner "Hipster" on instagram does exactly the same way. Of course, Chelsea Girls isn't a real New York Underground movie. Certainly most of the party lions on Weser Street aren't "underground" either, in the sense that they make some kind of cultural contribution. Warhol's film is underexposed, while the hipsters from Weser Street are undressed. Does Chelsea Girls have any artistic purpose? No. Not at all. Absolutely not. You just have to promenade along Weser Street to understand that.