Absolut Warhola

Absolut Warhola
Directed by Stanislaw Mucha
Written by Stanislaw Mucha
Distributed by Pegasos Film
TLA Releasing (US)
Release date(s) 2001
Running time 80 min
Country Poland
Language Slovak

Absolut Warhola is a 2001 film directed by Stanislaw Mucha about Andy Warhol's extended family, whom he never met, from rural Slovakia.[1]

The film follows the filmmakers as they travel through eastern Slovakia to interview Warhol's surviving relatives, ethnic-Ruthenians living near the Polish border in Miková, and to visit the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce. The museum is shown to be in a poor state, with the museum director and staff openly soliciting donations from the viewer and giving out the museum's bank account details.

The living situation in the underdeveloped rural east of Slovakia prior to EU-membership is also shown. The film also notes the levels of homophobia still present in this part of the world, with several of Warhol's relatives openly criticizing the "rumours" of his sexuality (although his homosexuality is common knowledge in the West). One man even goes as far to suggest that Valerie Solanis, the radical feminist and misandrist who attempted to assassinate Warhol, was in fact a spurred former lover.

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