Since (film)

Since aka Kennedys Assassination is a 1966 film directed by Andy Warhol about the assassination of the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. The film reconstructs the assassination with both Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson present, both before and after the event. The roles in Since are performed by Warhols superstars from The Factory.

Warhol had been unmoved by the Kennedy assassination, commenting that he wasnt bothered that he was dead, but was bothered by ...the way the television and radio were programming everybody to feel so sad. It seemed like no matter how hard you tried, you couldnt get away from the thing. Warhol had already created the silkscreen paintings Sixteen Jackies, Nine Jackies, Jackie The Week That Was and Gold Jackie of Jacqueline Kennedy, and explored the reporting of the assassination in a series of eleven prints, Flash November 22, 1963.The film begins with a close up of Ondine, with an off screen voice saying that the film will follow the Oswald model on television. The voice adds that First it happened, then it was played back in tape, and then it was played back in slow motion. The voice also says that the performers dont have to maintain stiff character portrayals and are free to assume other roles, assuming they have assumed that role by choice originally. ........

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