Introduction to the A. W. Method

"It’s as if his life were a byproduct… he’s an institution, like Walt Disney. Once he’s dead, Warhol’s films will still be there; as for Andy, his life will go on without him…” – Gerard Malanga

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it” – Andy Warhol

1. WARHOL AND ITALY
To speak of Andy Warhol as a filmmaker, in the broadest sense that his activity allows us to attribute this term, means leading into a more or less constituted universe of discourse (that of film criticism), and into the specific field governed by this discourse (that of cinema), an object which, for one reason or another, has until now been hostile, if not altogether foreign.

Vite (1969)