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Paul Morrissey, cult filmmaker and Andy Warhol collaborator, dies at 86
The director of films including Trash, Flesh and Women in Revolt has died in New York after a bout of pneumonia
Paul Morrissey, an early collaborator of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground and the director of cult films such as Flesh, Trash and Women in Revolt, has died at 86. During this time Morrisey also co-conceived and named Warhol’s multimedia series of “happenings”, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which featured performances by the band. He is generally credited with bringing narrative structure and cinéma vérité direction to the collective’s film-making efforts, though he said the actors were the true stars.
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