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Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests were filmed between early 1964 and November 1966. Factory visitors who had potential ‘star’ quality would be seated in front of a tripod-mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running. More than 500 screen tests were made. Some of the footage was incorporated into Warhol’s films, 13 Most Beautiful Boys (1964), 13 Most Beautiful Women (1964) and 50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities (1964). His collaborator Gerard Malanga (who did most of the actual filming) also used some reels in his multimedia poetry readings called Screen Test Poems in 1965.
In this combined programme
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Andy Warhol: Screen Tests Reel 18
Reel 18 presents in consecutive order Nico 3, Rose (?), Chip Monk, Susan Sontag 6, John Palmer 1, Helmut 3, Isabel Eberstadt, John Cale’s eyes… -
Blowjob
Warhol slowed down the actual speed of the recordings, so the faces get extra attention. The screening of each of these reels of screen tests… -
Andy Warhol: Screen Tests Reel 10
Reel 10 presents in consecutive order Ethel Scull, Barbara Rose, Robin (?), Jane Holzer, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, John Ashbery, Jonas Mekas, Ann Buchanan, Paul…