Preceded by short: The Andy Warhol Robot (John Sorensen, 1992): Warhol once said, "I want to be a machine." Years later, he would embark on a collaboration with film producer Lewis Allen and stage director Peter Sellars to add hydraulics to his dream. Most eerie is Warhol being measured and cast in rubber by ex-designers from Disney's animatronics lab. (19 mins, Color, 3/4" Video, From the artist) Seven years after his death, Warhol remains a cryptic presence to be examined and deciphered, as though beneath his pallid countenance lurks some cache of wisdom that can explain away Pop art, the New York underground, mechanical reproduction, pernicious celebrity. The newest Rosetta Stone cast before the hieroglyphic Andy, Wagner and De Geetere's expansive essay, Fly Me to a Star, returns us to Warhol's sixties heyday, mixing interviews with Factory veterans Paul Morrissey, Gerard Malanga, Billy Name and John Cale, with ironic "recreations" of classic Warhol movie scenes. The French title, Les Contaminations, drawing on Baudrillard, posits a viral, destabilized culture. This is echoed in the grumblings of Taylor Mead as he reveals that Warhol's Sleep, a series of loops, is an artistic sham, and in Morrissey's dyspeptic proclamation about our "cheap, morally empty" contemporary life. No matter how disillusioned we may be with the past or the present, there's always Warhol, sphinx-like and impenetrable.-Steve Seid