A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
Institute of Contemporary Art
South Boston
Saturday-Sunday
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Esther Robinson is an accidental film director. A chance meeting at the Andy Warhol Foundation led her to discover a cache of 20 films directed by her uncle, Danny Williams, whom she had never met. Williams had been a fixture at Andy Warhol's Factory, making experimental films about Factory habitués, including Edie Sedgwick and the Velvet Underground, and running the light show at the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. In 1966, at the age of 27, Williams disappeared on a beach, never to be seen again.

The discovery of her uncle's films led Robinson to make a documentary, A Walk into the Sea, about her uncle's disappearance from art history, her family history, and, most tragically, from the face of the earth.

On Sunday, the ICA will screen Robinson's film alongside Danny Williams's work, with musical accompaniment from composer T. Griffin and Fugazi's Guy Picciotto.

Bostonist got a chance to speak with Robinson about her film. Listen to our podcast to learn about Danny Williams's relationship to Andy Warhol, the shadow that Warhol casts over his surviving Factory colleagues, and what sort of man Robinson's grandmother found hot.

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Still photo of Danny Williams
Film still courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum.
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