Andy Warhol Movies

Harry Smith’s screen test by Andy Warhol.

Part of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith.

Ruth Ford has been placed in three-quarter profile against a white background, under instructions to keep still and try not to blink. With her head...

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

Screen Test of Alan Soloman

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

A young woman named Phoebe Russell, is filmed wearing beads and a flowered dress; she gazes slightly cross-eyed at the camera, looking pretty but...

Gerard Malanga has been brightly lit from the front, and has tilted his head slightly backwards, which makes his neck bulge; he holds still...

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

Charles Aberg, in a black turtleneck sweater, squints warily at the camera, which films him in a tight close-up of his head.

“Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in 1965, made Bitch, his real-life parody...

John Giorno’s screen test by Andy Warhol.

Whips was one of the films mentioned in a half page ad in the April 7, 1966 issue of the Village Voice, advertising The Exploding Plastic Inevitable...

Susanne De Maria glances around, tilts her head, leans back, smokes, and occasionally smiles at the camera, revealing her dimples.

This is the debut documentary made by Alexis Krasilovsky, author of "Women Behind The Camera" (Praeger, 1997). Shot on 16mm in 1971, the film covers...

A second screen test featuring Nico and a Hershey bar — the last being ST245. Camera exercises back and forth, from side to side, swinging,...

A portrait of the ultimate Chelsea Girl. Nico sits for over an hour while dazzling colored lights and psychedelic-patterned slides are projected onto...

The first of multiple screen tests Kurz did at Warhol’s factory. She is photographed in a wide shot, sprawled on the couch and playing with a...

The musician and filmmaker Gino Piserchio is lit from the right and filmed in very tight close-up, his face filling the frame. His hair is combed...

Gerard Malanga has been posed slightly off-centre against a black background and lit evenly from both sides, he has turned sideways to face the...