Andy Warhol performing: eating a hamburger 1982

Andy Warhol eating a Hamburger from the film 66 Scenes from America (1982) by Jørgen Leth, and Jørgen Leth on Andy Warhol eating a Hamburger; Two Scenes With Warhol And Eminem, Alex Da Corte & Jørgen Leth. Jørgen Leth directed the film 66 Scenes from America in 1982, a personal subjective impression, acutely sensed and perceived. The approach has been to register whatever exercises a fascination and place it in a surprising context. In Leth’s own words about the film and the Warhol scene: “A documentary about the USA today. It embraces major and minor impressions, events, things, people, thoughts and feelings. It is a collection of pictures of a country which in many ways is strange and incomprehensible to us, but in which we nevertheless recognize a reflection of our own culture, and to which our dreams whether we want them to or not must bear a relation. ... [Warhol] told that he has to say his name and that he should do so when he has finished performing his action, but wha
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