Warhol responded to creative competition by deliberately making bad movies

Evidence

Having missed the boat, Warhol was playing catch up. His official contribution to the festival was, as he realized, severely anti-climactic: “Everyone is being so creative that I thought I would just show a bad movie,” he explained in the Village Voice ad. “The camera work is so bad, the lighting is awful, the technical work is terrible—but the people are fantastic.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 813

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the usual avant-garde competence narrative — connects to how scarcity and competition, not genius, drove production choices in the scene.