Screen Tests
Overview of films
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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 2, Lou Reed 3, Star of the Bed.
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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 Morrissey.
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Screen Tests (Reel 16)
By making a ‘screen test’ of all visitors to his Factory, Andy Warhol illustrates his famous vision of fame. In the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
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Britton, South Dakota
A found footage film from the mid-20th-century heartland. Vanessa Renwick has resituated cinematic snapshots as an eerie, anonymous parade of children, confused subjects with unclear futures. You have seen their faces.
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Sylvia Kristel – Paris
When does a recording become a portrait? When we find something unique in it? Or when we recognise it somehow? Ten years ago, Manon de Boer started to make radically sober recordings of reading faces. Since then she had continued to explore the impact of a face, registered by a camera. Or she has created […]
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Roz
Working with performer Rosalynde LeBlanc, Burt Barr has created a music video which overturns the rapid-fire schizophrenia of the genre: he limits the frame to a tight head shot, fixing his subject with an intimate and unswerving gaze. From LeBlanc’s lips we hear Otis Clay’s amorous voice crooning the Bluegrass classic Banks of the Ohio.
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Promises
Four friends are asked to repeat a few words by Al Capone: ‘Nobody puts a price on my head and lives.’ In the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
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Rebecka
Made as an interview. Spontaneity is deflated with minor slips of the tongue and the emphatic reading of a script.
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Not She
On a deserted film set, a young woman investigates the boundaries of identification with characters on the silver screen, from Monica Vitti to Gena Ro
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Folk Music and Documentary
Like Warhol’s screen tests, Seth Price subjects a symbolic segment of his own generation to the ‘portrait test’. Will this imaginary hipster melt under the lights and let slip his intellectual slothfulness, his lack of congruence in his ideas, his `look’? And who is feeding him these happy-hour lines, nuggets of misinformation?
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Tomorrow
Film installation with the faces of Swedish schoolchildren in an uneasy, slow, rotating motion. In the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
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Location Interviews
A female interviewer questions five women about their origin. But they have scarcely started to explain when the questioner interrupts them and asks them to change their statements about their countries and families. The woman do as they are told, but become notably more strained.