A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
Date and Time
Thursday Feb 6, 2014
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Location
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA 01966
Travelling by Car
Rockport is 45 miles from downtown Boston.
Drive north on Route 128 (through two rotaries) to the traffic light in Gloucester.
At the traffic light, turn left onto Route 127.
Drive 4 miles to Rockport.
Continue through “Five Corners” onto Route 127A (Broadway) toward the harbor. It’s a slight vere to the right. At the stop sign at Mt. Pleasant Street (lighthouse in median), turn left and then bear left onto Main Street. The Shalin Liu Performance Center is on the right at 37 Main Street.
Travelling by Train
Rockport is accessible by commuter rail from Boston and other Northshore towns. The commuter rail originates from North Station on the Green line in Boston. The train station is ½ mile walk to the concert hall.
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Description
A documentary about the mysterious 1966 disappearance of Danny Williams and was produced by his niece Esther Robinson. Virtually an unknown fact today, Danny Williams was Andy Warhol's lover and a promising young filmmaker at the time. The film includes 20 never-before-seen film shorts Williams made during his time at the Factory and what may be the earliest known footage of the Velvet Underground. In the film, Robinson interviews surviving Factory members and quietly dismantles the Warhol myth-making machine, allowing a deeper examination of the human fragility on which Warhol's empire was built. ''Fascinating!'' New York Times ''Engrossing…Fascinating stuff'' New York Magazine ''A marvelous oral history of a time and place rarely explored with such unromantic honesty, the haunting thing…is that it gently exposes the ultimately fatal psychic wounds that Danny Williams received at the Factory and those he brought with him.'' The New York Sun Free, no tickets required.
