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Wednesday, Mar 17, 2004
9:30pm
Since
Long abandoned, this unfinished Warhol rarity brazenly reenacts the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the confines of Warhol's SoHo studio. Startling in its iconoclasm, the film, originally titled Since the Assassination, is wildly bratty with its cast of Factory regulars bored by the repetition of trauma. They sit on a couch standing in for the presidential limousine, uttering such brash nuggets as Mary Woronov's “Put the top up. Put the top up.” In the available reels, Ondine, playing a frustrated LBJ, is often found muttering on the Factory toilet while Susan Bottomly as Jackie spends her time crawling along the back of the couch in search of JFK's shattered skull, here depicted as a red piece of paper. But the shocking theatricality of Since is best seen when Gerald Malanga points a banana and simply says “bang.”
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