A WALK INTO THE SEA: DANNY WILLIAMS AND THE WARHOL FACTORY

Here comes the untold story of the unknown filmmaker Danny Williams. In 1965, Harvard University drop out, Danny, was living life at a fast pace: In Manhattan he began his film career as a cameraman, became a fixture at the Warhol Factory and fell in love with Andy. He made a set of 20 experimental silent films and designed the groundbreaking Velvet Underground/ Exploding Plastic Inevitable light show. Only a year later, everything turned upside down as Warhol ended their affair and members of the Factory manoeuvred for his position. Filled with anxiety and addicted to drugs, Danny went home to his family in Massachusetts. One night he mysteriously disappeared.

Nearly four decades later Williams' niece, director Esther B. Robinson, discovered his work in the MoMA archive. Believing his films might hold the key to the mystery surrounding her uncle's abbreviated life, she began researching. Her intrigue was fuelled further when her grandmother gave her Danny's box of papers and journals, which gave clues about the Factory's infighting. Through interviews with surviving Warhol Factory members, the film begins to dismantle the mythmaking machine and allows a deeper examination of the human fragility on which the "Warhol Empire" was built.

Award: Teddy Award, Berlinale 2007