Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (1964-1966) + Live Musical Score By Hapsburg Braganza

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Warhol's 16mm screen tests

A selection of Screen Tests, pop art legend Andy Warhol’s fascinating series of moving-image portraits, shot over three years in his famous New York studio, The Factory. Filmed with Warhol’s 16mm Bolex camera, these silent, black-and-white films capture those whom the artist considered to have star appeal: Factory regulars, friends and other celebrities.

Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Jonas Mekas, etc

Stripped of the social sphere upon which their personas were constructed, Warhol’s subjects – Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Jona Mekas and Edie Sedgwick among them – react with varying degrees of comfort to the camera’s unflinching intimacy. Denied a voice or even editorial manipulation, every gesture is given a purity that is distinctly cinematic.

At once, these films add to and undercut their subjects’ personalities, exploring with a strange intensity the fine line between the public and the private, the authentic and the assumed, the tangible and the hidden…

+ Live Score by Hapsburg Braganza

We're very excited to announce that the great Hapsburg Braganza will be composing the music and playing live to the screening.

Hapsburg Braganza is a great experimental one-man band.

He describes himself as a "musicmaker of several different styles, including electroacoustic composition, solo electric guitar, psychedelia, sound collage, minimal electronics…"

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http://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/1025