Word: warholism
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...important point is that Warhol is on top of everything he films...
...Chelsea Girls didn't have to be a movie; it only crudely makes use of the possibilities of the medium. A newsletter would have served as well Warhol sets up his camers before a wall, puts an actor between the wall and the camera, and turns out a slice of life. He is aware that cameras can go in and out of focus, can move right and left and up and down, and can zoom in on their subjects. Although he uses these devices all the time, Warhol believes his material is so powerful that he need only...
...probably a compromise between care and the exigencies of ordinary life, but the people and events in the movie are the proper kind: they are evil. By looking at depraved people we are supposed to learn of the dark cavities of the human soul. The wisdom that Andy Warhol has gleaned from the gutters, rooms, and public lavatories of New York is delivered over to us in the movie...
These assumptions are faulty; sadomasochism and homosexuality are not tickets to wisdom. Nor are they always as directly evil as Warhol pretends. The high school thugs who went to the park on Friday nights to lure homosexuals and then beat them and steal their money effected more evil than these victims could...
...Chelsea Girls is really the result of Andy Warhol's belief in the brilliance of his own mode of life. He is on to something so good, good enough to film, that he and his friends get together some Saturday afternoon and let the cameras roll. If the actor moves and the camera catches only a bit of his head and lots of the bathroom behind him, it's all right: it's all good stuff. A director can afford a certain nonchalance when he's working in the unexplored regions of the soul...