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Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey does an awesome job capturing the different times and places, beautifully underlined by music from Dario Marianelli. A- —Yvonne P. Behrens Danny Williams Factory Films A Walk into the Sea, shows an idiosyncratic talent at work. Where Warhol famously would turn on a cam era for a film like Horse and then leave (or “forget” to turn on the camera at all before shooting), Williams exhibits a far more engaged, dynamic sensibility. His work shows the mindset of a visualist and an editor, cutting and controlling gorgeously strobe-lit images of Edie Sedgwick, artist Harold Stevenson, BrigiJ Berlin, Gerard Malanga, the Velvet Underground and others—including, of course, Warhol. Warhol as seen in Williams’ films is much as we’d expect: remote, humorless, bkxxlless. Williams’ attempts to inject life into his subjects through sensual lighting techniques, slow-motion and rapid-fire cutting are constantly frustrated by Warhol’s ultimately impenetrable demeanor. Williams' rediscovered films—in a rare showing 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8 at Northwest Film Center intro duced by Robinson with live music accompaniment by The Quavers—hint at a gifted artist of a very different order from Warhol. If it’s tix) simplistic to say Williams’ suicide in 1966 at age 27 was a conse quence of their failed affair, he was neither the first nor the last Warhol satellite to crash and bum before coming into his own. —Gary Morris Andy Warhol’s “Factory” was rightly named. Warhol prefigured artists like Jeff Koons (or, for that matter, cynical sentimentalists like Thomas Kincade) in a kind of ruthless commodification of art. There seems to be no actual creator behind much of this kind of art, which can be produced as easily by underpaid workers as by the artist himself. More easily produced, really, because this method—mass production, recasting commercial images in a high-art context—allows the artist to do more interesting things: lounging, partying, clubbing, etc. Warhol himself tends to vanish For the Bible Tells Me So behind his askew wig and dark glasses and soulless For the Bible Tells Me So opens with a startling images of Jackie Kennedy and Campbell’s soup. image. Infamous Christian homophobe Anita Warhol acolytes who lacked his ability to disen Bryant is at a 1970s news conference hitching gage both from life and art often fared less well about “the homosexuals” when one of the latter than their mentor, as many books and films have jumps up and pies her. Bryant manages to tackily shown through the years. Danny Williams is a case quip, “At least it’s a fruit pie” through a face dis- in point. Williams was a handsome, Harvard- I figured by oozing meringue. Then she prays for the educated gay man whose curious nature and artis “misguided” offender’s soul. tic inclinations led him to New York's alternative This grotesque image is a perfect symbol of the art scene in 1963. By 1965, he was Warhol’s lover film’s subject: the church’s endless hate campaign and living at the Factory. against gay people. Director Daniel Karslake show That year he also began competing, in his own cases five average, churchgoing American families, small way, with Warhol by shixiting experimental all raised on boilerplate “God hates fags” propagan films using the denizens of the Factory as his “stars.” da. A mother of a lesbian child says she started Not that these were conventional films, or very taking her baby to church at only two weeks old; much like Warhol's. Even a brief glance at this that’s how early the anti-gay drumbeat begins. 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