Blow Job

Blow Job (1964)

Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.

Date of release
1964-07-16
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (56)
Runtime
35m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Andy Warhol

Casting

Interesting facts

Blow Job is a 1964 American silent film directed by Andy Warhol. It depicts the face of an uncredited DeVeren Bookwalter as he apparently receives fellatio from an unseen partner. While shot at 24 frames per second, Warhol specified that it should be projected at 16 frames per second, slowing it down by a third.

Background and production

The identity of the person performing the act is disputed. Poet Willard Maas has been identified as the person performing the act, but Warhol states in his book Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980) that five different boys performed the fellatio. In his book, Warhol writes that he originally asked Charles Rydell, the boyfriend of filmmaker Jerome Hill, to star in the film, promising that there would be five different boys to perform the act.

However, when Warhol set up the film shoot at The Factory on a Sunday, Rydell failed to show up. Warhol phoned Rydell at Hill's suite at the Algonquin Hotel and asked where Rydell was. Rydell replied that he thought Warhol was kidding, and had no intention of appearing in such a film. When he declined, Andy used "a good-looking kid that happened to be hanging around the Factory that day", who was later identified as Bookwalter.

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