Andy Warhol: A Documentary by Ric Burns
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“Andy’s life and work made my work possible. Andy set the precedent for the possibility for my art to exist.” —Keith Haring
As a friend, mentor, and collaborator, Andy Warhol was deeply influential to Keith Haring. Ric Burns’s comprehensive documentary delves into five decades of the iconic pop artist’s life, from his early years to his breakthrough soup can paintings to the Factory years, tracing the arc of his rise to household-name fame. Narrated by artist Laurie Anderson, this portrait combines insider and critical interviews with rarely seen, extensive archival material. 2006, US, digital, 4 hours with an intermission.
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Ric Burns is an internationally recognized documentary filmmaker and writer, best known for his eight-part, 17-and-a-half-hour series New York: A Documentary Film, which premiered nationally on PBS in 1999, 2001, and 2003. Burns has been writing, directing, and producing historical documentaries for more than 25 years, since his collaboration on the PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his brother Ken and co-wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed some of the most distinguished programs for PBS. His work has won numerous film and television awards, including six Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, three Writer’s Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing; the Eric Barnouw Award of the Organization of American Historians, and the D.W. Griffith Award of the National Board of Review. Burns was educated at Columbia University and Cambridge University. He lives in New York City with his wife, Bonnie Lafave, and two sons.
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