ANDY WARHOL'S AMERICA BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES LICENSES FOOTAGE FROM JONAS MEKAS' WALDEN

ANDY WARHOL'S AMERICA covers Warhol’s glorification and critique of American culture, his changing response to the country’s major historical events and finally, the artist as a man obsessed with money and security.

WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969) is a 3-hour masterwork included in the collection JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS available from GME. Mekas’ footage of the Velvet Underground’s maiden performance at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry appears in an episode of the 3 part BBC series.

from Jonas Mekas' WALDEN (1969)