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Andy Warhol, The Nude Restaurant, 1967 (still); image courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum
Screening

Eat (1964) and The Nude Restaurant (1967)

Thursday, July 11, 2019

6 p.m.

Phyllis Wattis Theater, Floor 1

$12 general / $10 members (Price includes access to both films.)

Eat, 1964, 16mm, 39 min

The Nude Restaurant, 1967, 16mm, 100 min

In the first of these two films, Pop artist Robert Indiana is depicted during the act of eating, adhering to the minimal style and silent speed of other films such as Kiss, Blow Job, Empire, and Sleep. The second, The Nude Restaurant, portrays a group of male customers and a female waitress, all of whom are nearly nude. Over the course of the film, the group engages in mundane conversation, punctuated only by Warhol’s camera strobing work, giving the film an uneasy tenor.

All films screen courtesy Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film and Video Library.