The first ever authorized DVD release of films by Andy Warhol
Released in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum, 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests features 13 of Warhol's classic silent film portraits.
Subjects include Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, and more.
Shot between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City, the Screen Tests are presented with newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips.
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
The DVD is presented in a slipcovered hardbound package
New transfers from Warhol's original 16mm negatives
Behind the scenes making-of the new soundtrack and a video interview with Dean & Britta
40-page booklet with liner notes and biographies of the Screen Test subjects
