Andy Warhol Movies

Ann follows Warhol's instructions throughout the entire screen test, as she stares directly at the camera without blinking, until tears begin to fall...

In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada,...

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 24 seconds in length.

The actor Lawrence Casey begins his screen test by staring solemnly into the camera,. He then lifts his chin slightly and begins an uncanny,...

Begins with a long shot of ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot, then zooms rapidly in and out and into close-up. Halfway through, the film settles down...

Nico, eating a banana, sits alongside French singer-songwriter Antoine. They are seated below a large peel-off ‘Banana’ poster of The...

In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New York. In Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol, Auder...

Hal looks sternly into the camera in a darkly lit room.

Begins with a close-up of Lou Reed’s eye; the camera then zooms out to a slightly broader view of his face. Toward the end he glances briefly...

The second of multiple screen tests Kurz did at Warhol’s factory. She is photographed this time in a medium shot.

Rene Ricard in a lost Screen Test. The image was reproduced on the cover of the book ‘Screen Tests/A Diary’ (New York: Kulchar Press,...

In 2024 Katie Trainor, MoMA’s film collections manager, and Greg Pierce, the Andy Warhol Museum’s then-director of film and video, worked...

1 of 2 screen tests of Dan Foster, by Andy Warhol

Lou Reed, wearing a black turtleneck sweater and posed against a pale background, with a bright light sharply angled onto his face from the right,...

Screen Test: Helmut, by Andy Warhol, is a five minute silent black and white continuous close-up of a young man’s face. The face remains...

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and...

Peter Hujar, shot in close-up, has his face lit from both sides, which creates the usual symmetrical pattern of shadows down the centre of his face.

Against a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, Judson Dance Theater company member Freddy Herko and author and cultural critic Jill Johnston dance...

A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins.