I do a lot of sort of... how put them, like I have a video about one hour long on simply memories of the factory on Andy Warhol factory period. Then I have another one about... also one hour, on notes from the Film-makers' Cooperative, like historical reviews, memories, of historical surveys and memories and... and various subjects.
[Q] Where you interview people or you talk?
Mostly I talk or, let's say, when I did the factory it's very often there are, like, occasionally on... by request, like when they did Andy Warhol show in Vienna in 1998, very big one, they wanted me – it was on the factory years – to come. I had to be, you know, at the main speaker, but I could not come at the last minute, so I said, 'I will send you a video'. So I prepared a video for... on that occasion. So I went to the actual location and I videotaped that, then we had a little conversation, you know, with Gerald Malanga, but not... not, that's about it really. And then mostly me speaking and telling close-up into my video and that's during that trip I did... I brought... also they wanted to show Empire film.
Did I tell already the joke about the Empire? So I will tell you an anecdote. So, I bring Empire film and there is an auditorium of some 120 people and I introduced the film and I say, 'The New York Premiere at the City Hall Cinema', they had about 300 to 350 people and some sat and walked out and came back they brought sandwiches and at the very end, if I'm not wrong with my memory, there were about 30 people left, so I said, 'I'm curious about how you will do so' and then I go and have some wine, I go to eat. Then I come back like two hours before the end, everybody's still there. Then I go out, I have more wine, I come back just before the film ends, everybody is still there.
So, the film ends and I'm, of course, amazed. I come in font of the audience and I say, 'You, people, you are amazing. You are really amazing, I cannot believe this', and as I am still talking there's, like, a woman on my right approaching and she begins to talk almost over my voice and very loud and clear and she said, 'So now, since everybody stayed, so for this ticket... what are we going to do for this ticket? We'll have a lottery probably; we'll have to have a lottery'. And I'm saying, 'What is this?' So, then I found out, the newspapers, the press found about... about the Empire film, eight hours long, most boring film ever made will be shown in Vienna, there's one of the papers offered that... a Lufthansa round trip ticket, free ticket to the one who will stay to the end. So they all stayed to the end to get the ticket, this ticket, and there was a lottery and one of the fil-makers that we know got the ticket and... what is... I forgot his name. So that was the Empire screening in Vienna.