Absolut Warhola

{{short description|2001 film by Stanislaw Mucha}}

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| name = Absolut Warhola

| image = tlareleasingabsolutewarhola.jpg

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| director = {{ill|Stanislaw Mucha|de}}

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| writer = Stanislaw Mucha

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| distributor = {{Plainlist|

• Pegasos Film
• TLA Releasing (US)

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| released = {{Film date|2001}}

| runtime = 80 minutes

| country = Poland

| language = Slovak

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Absolut Warhola is a 2001 Polish-German documentary film directed by {{ill|Stanislaw Mucha|de}} about Andy Warhol's extended family, whom he never met, from rural Slovakia.{{cite press release |title=TLA Releasing Unveils the past of Famed Artist Andy Warhol to Reveal a Story Few Ever Imagined in: Absolut Warhola |publisher=TLA Releasing |date=2004-03-09 |url=http://www.tlavideo.com/images/assets/97.pdf |access-date=2009-01-09}}

The film follows the filmmakers as they travel through eastern Slovakia to interview Warhol's surviving relatives, ethnic-Rusyns living near the Polish border in Miková, and to visit the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce. The museum is shown to be in a poor state, with the museum director and staff openly soliciting donations from the viewer and giving out the museum's bank account details.

The living situation in the underdeveloped rural east of Slovakia prior to EU-membership is also shown. The film also notes the levels of homophobia still present in this part of the world, with several of Warhol's relatives openly criticizing the "rumours" of his sexuality (although his homosexuality is common knowledge in the West). One man even goes as far to suggest that Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist and misandrist who attempted to assassinate Warhol, was in fact a spurned former lover.