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Andy Warhol's The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)

The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)
The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)
Cinema
November
22
7 PM

Event Details

Date & Time:

Fri November 22, 2019
7 PM

Location:

The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Audience:

Free and Open to the public

Details:

The Life of Juanita Castro
(Andy Warhol, 1965, USA, 16mm, 66 min)

Camp, historical topicality, New York’s underground theater scene, and Warhol’s disarming and energizing anti-cinema approach to filmmaking all combine in this loosely-scripted, irreverent portrait of Fidel Castro and his family (some members of which are played by experimental filmmaker Marie Menken and Warhol superstar Ultra Violet). “Theatre of the Ridiculous” playwright and director Ronald Tavel scripted the film and appears as an on-screen director, putting the performers through a series of nonsensical actions. 

Bruce Jenkins, SAIC professor and co-author of the forthcoming The Andy Warhol Film Catalogue Raisonné, will introduce the screening

 

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu