Ultra Violet

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I really want to see this! Ultra Violet, one of Warhol's superstars and author of Famous for Fifteen Minutes: My Years With Andy Warhol, will finally be the subject of a documentary. It's about time- other Warhol Superstars- Brigid Berlin for example- have already had their time at the Warhol factory chronicled on film. Documentaries following the life, art, and cultural stylings of figures surrounding iconic periods in time are important, because they show not only the influence of a "background figure" upon the supposed "leader", but the permanent influence the figure later has in a society draws influence from past cultural stylings. Who knew that Warhol's 'Polaroid' series was actually born out of Berlin's personal obsession with the medium? And, take also pro-sex feminist Annie Sprinkle's 'Tit Prints' as an example of this phenomenon of the hidden histories of inspiration- I certainly didn't know Berlin was the first to create tit prints (you just have to watch the documentary), a protopathway of the 70's Feminist Art which was characterized by art creation utilizing the body in new and political ways.  
Surprisingly, one of Factory's most famous cult icons, Edie Sedgwick, has not been explored by documentarians. David Wiseman- film maker, writer, artist, and former college room mate of Lou Reed- did author Edie:Girl on Fire with Melissa Painter which I thought was supposed to be an accompaniment to a documentary of the same name but it seems like no such film will be in production anytime soon, and if it is, the release will certainly be prolonged. For the time being, Wiseman's Ciao Manhattan, which intertwines non-fiction and fiction narrative based on Sedgwick's life, is the best account of Edie we have.