new York MOMA in conjunction with the Andy Warhol Museum has decided to digitize archive footage of the king of pop art, consisting of about 500 movies 1963-1972. This could be the beginning of a global revaluation of kinnerley Andy Warhol. All these films became part of the collections of MOMA in the early 1990s, however, showed them very rarely, because of their extreme fragility. The project will be scanned more than 1,000 reels of film, frame by frame. This Titanic work will take several let@

Several Warhol films are widely known and are cult — for example, an 8-hour film Empire (1964) and "the Girl from Chelsea" (1964). However, most of the Warhol Foundation's poorly understood, partly due to the fact that his paintings and graphic heritage too obshirno@

"I hope that the art world and the cultural world in General will feel what we feel that these films are as important and revolutionary as Warhol paintings," says the project's curator, Deputy Director of the Warhol Museum Patrick Moore (Patrick Moore).  

Warhol was a tireless filmmaker. For five years to use his first camera, a 16-millimeter Bolex, he shot more than 600 films. He tirelessly documented his work and his circle of friends, although he seldom got in CADR@

"the mission of the Warhol Museum is to be the global guardian of his heritage, says the Museum Director Eric Shiner (Eric Shiner). — Making film layer of Warhol available to curators, scholars and the General public, we make significant progress in achieving our goals."

Fifteen films that were never shown to the public, will go on a tour of America as part of the traveling exhibition "Found: songs unknown films of Andy Warhol". Live musical accompaniment to the films will provide modern musicians Tom Verlaine Tom Verlaine), Dean Warham (Dean Wareham), Eleanor of Friedberger (Eleanor Friedberger) and other Warhol films will show in Pittsburg, California Newhire@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

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