Movies: Andy Warhol

Lost Andy Warhol film....

Velvet Underground Under Review is a 75 minute film reviewing the music and career of one of rock musics most influential collectives; a band which esteemed music journalist Lester Bangs claims started modern music. It features rare musical performan...

This art experiment by Andy Warhol captures the simple act of a man eating mushrooms. This one-man show starring Robert Indiana presents the actor slowly eating some mushrooms, having an enjoyable time not only with the food but also with a friendly ...

Henry Geldazhler was the first curator of 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and during the early 1960s, was a close friend and confidante of Warhol....

Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center....

Binghamton Birdie (Richard Stringer) lounging in his underwear. An unused roll from Couch....

A man and a woman live in a clothes-cabinet, literally; they contemplate leaving, but never do. For a time only their voices are heard, until they try to have some light, and open the door. The Woman takes an almost maternal role, they share a sandwi...

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Gerard Malanga reads some of his poems and excerpts from his diaries substituting the word “bufferin” for most of the proper names in the readings, while Ronna Page gives an ongoing commentary in the film....

This newly unearthed film, which Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques. Sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of light l...

Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke....

Edie Sedgwick, wearing no make up, her eyes wet and swollen as if she had been crying, looks sad for a while, then she laughs briefly, talks to people off-screen, and seems to cheer up, flashing a huge smile at someone off to her right....

Lou Reed faces the camera, posing with a large, partially unwrapped Hershey chocolate bar held up next to his face. He holds quite still throughout the film until, near the end of the roll, he blinks rapidly and tilts his head to the right....

A commission organised by Richard Frank from the Grey advertising agency in New York on behalf of the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers. The concept was to make a film of Warhol's choosing - any length, any subject, any number of people. This was ...

A second Hershey Lou Reed screen test....

"Andy Warhol's 1966 'sequel' to his Blow Job begins with a long static shot of Gregory Battcock looking bored; small movements of his head reframe the elegant tight close-up to make sun and shadow symmetrical on his face, or unbalance them again, whi...

Two short portrait films of the actor and model Denis Deegan which – while they precede the Screen Tests – may well have served as studies for this larger project....

A portrait of the ultimate Chelsea Girl. Nico sits for over an hour while dazzling colored lights and psychedelic-patterned slides are projected onto her statuesque face. She breaks down in tears during the second reel, which made it into the final v...

Screen test of Barbara Rose....

Salvador Dalí glares aghast at the camera, his head held high and lit dramatically from below. Halfway through the film, there is a sudden in-camera edit, and Dalí disappears from view; the rest of the film shows only the speckled wooden backdrop beh...