Film

A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)

Director: Esther Robinson

Movie review

From Time Out London

A low-budget but richly rewarding documentary in which Robinson investigates exactly what might have happened to her uncle Danny Williams, a Harvard-graduate who fell in (love) with Warhol and joined the Factory, where he started making his own rather special experimental films before a series of events that ended with him disappearing – drowning himself? – after a dinner with his well-to-do Massachusetts family. His surviving relatives and an array of Factory folk contribute various opinions and anecdotes on Williams'achievements, experiences and emotional life; the result is not only a wonderfully evocative, unsentimental look at Warhol and his deeply dysfunctional set,  but a worrying study of the potentially damaging dynamics of family life, however loving in its intentions. Superb stuff.

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