before i start, i must warn you all that this is going to be a very subjective review. but what is a review if not subjective, eh?

first, i must ask you, what are the characteristics of an avant-garde film? i, myself, don’t know what are the exact characteristics of an avant-garde film. but it surely isn’t a chaotically and frantically moved camera work, is it? it surely isn’t a sometimes-focused-sometimes-blurred picture, is it? it surely isn’t a sometimes-high-sometimes-low sound volume, is it? it surely isn’t putting-a-child-in-the-center-of-a-band-who-played-noisy-experimental-music, is it? apparently for andy warhol and paul morrissey, those are the characteristics of an avant-garde film.

andy warhol’s the velvet underground and nico tried too hard to be an avant-garde film and arrogantly self-proclaimed itself as an avant-garde film, when in fact it’s nothing but a film by people who are obsessed with the zoom-in-zoom-out button.

but who am i kidding? this 66 minutes film is marvelous! you know why? because it has approximately 55 minutes footage of the velvet underground (and nico) doing a jam! it’s lou reed, john cale, sterling morrison, and maureen tucker doing a jam, for fuck sake! in fact, it’s one very trippy jam! 55 minutes of the velvet underground (and nico) doing one hell of a trippy jam! the least you could do is give it four stars like i do!

ps: i told you this review is going to be very subjective.