Andy Warhol before he was a soup can—raw, strange, and already iconic.
One of the most important films in Malanga's body of work is his series of movie portraits of Andy Warhol from 1964-65. Comprised of seven individual 3-minute reels, Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man is the most intimate portrait of the artist ever captured to film. - The Waverly Press, Gerard Malanga's Secret Cinema
Cinematography
Grainy 16mm black-and-white that feels stolen from a dream.
Direction
Malanga's patient lens lets Warhol construct himself in real time.
Director
Gerard Malanga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Warhol's Factory ascendancy, these reels capture him transitioning from commercial illustrator to pop art deity—before the shooting, before the wigs calcified into armor.
Gerard Malanga was Warhol's assistant, poet, and occasional on-screen collaborator; this is essentially employee footage of the boss that became canonical art history.
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