WORLDWIDE WARHOL: Restaurant (aka L’Avventura) and The Life of Juanita Castro

A screening of two 1965 films by Andy Warhol, RESTAURANT (aka L’AVVENTURA), a moving still life of Edie Segwick and other Factory regulars dining at an Italian restaurant in the East Village, and THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO, a Brechtian performance of a play by Ronald Tavel, loosely based on the biography of Fidel Castro’s sister. Introduced by Homay King and followed by a Q&A with King and Iggy Cortez, PhD Candidate in the History of Art.

Homay King is Professor in the Department of History of Art and the Program in Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of two books, Virtual Memory: Time-based Art and the Dream of Digitality (2015) and Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier (2010), both published by Duke University Press. Her essays on film, photography, and contemporary art have appeared in Afterall, Discourse, Film Quarterly, October, and in edited collections and museum catalogs, most recently the exhibition catalog for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s China: Through the Looking Glass (2015). Since 2011, she has been a member of the editorial collective of Camera Obscura, a journal of feminism, culture, and media studies.

This program is supported by Kaja Silverman and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award, the Katherine Stein Sachs and Keith L. Sachs Program in Contemporary Art in the Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Alice Paul Center for the Study of Gender, Sexuality, and Women at the University of Pennsylvania. It is part of Pop: On Screen and Around the World, a film series organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with International House on the occasion of the exhibition International Pop.