Defamiliarising Bodies: Warhol's Experimental Films

Andy Warhol's series of experimental films in the 1960s serve as an interesting deconstruction of ordinary bodily functions & behaviours. Each of these films takes a particular action, such as Sleep (1963) or Kiss (1963), and focuses the entire duration of the film on that particular activity. The effect of this as a viewer is to defamiliarise these activities, and to force you to dwell far longer on these activities in your consciousness than you ordinarily would, thus rendering them absurd. To watch people kiss for 40 minutes is an uncomfortable (and boring) method of presenting an activity usually so tender or passionate. This clinical approach heightens the absurdity of the interaction.

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