Lions Love (... and Lies)
Directed by Agnès Varda
Lions Love Home Movies
Directed by Shirley Clarke
In addition to Jerome Ragni and James Rado—the creators of Hair—as well as Warhol superstar Viva, Shirley Clarke plays herself in Varda’s vision of Hollywood and the sexual revolution. Structured as a playful film-within-a-film, Varda repeatedly punctures the cinematic illusion by discussing scenes with the actors from behind the camera and at one point appearing briefly, to show Clarke how to act out a suicide attempt. Combined with footage of Robert Kennedy’s assassination and the shooting of Andy Warhol, Lions Love is a time capsule of free love and its consequences dotted with cameo appearances by Peter Bogdanovich and Jim Morrison, among others.
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Lions Love Home Movies (Lions Love)
Directed by Shirley Clarke.
France, 1968, DCP, color, silent, 13 min.