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Andy Warhol by Jørgen Leth in 66 Scenes from America (1982)
“My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating a hamburger.”
Hjort: Some of your documentary films experiment interestingly with the relation between word and image. I’m thinking, for example, of “66 Scenes from America”, which presents a series of almost hyper-real, postcard-like images of America, that are identified, in a series of significantly delayed, laconic and minimalist comments. The longest sequence is that of Andy Warhol fastidiously eating a hamburger. Having completed this exercise, Warhol delivers the following line: ‘My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating a hamburger.’ What, exactly, is the purpose of the intentionally strained and awkward relation between images and words in “66 Scenes from America”? –Jørgen Leth interviewed by Mette Hjort & Ib Bondebjerg, September 2002
