Andy Warhol Movies

Reel 24, Test #8

A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family.

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

Alicia Purchon Clark looks around in a brightly lit room.

Brooke Hayward is framed off-centre against a completely black background, with a single light source sharply angled onto her face from the right....

Eric Andersen, wearing a blue-jean jacket and smoking, seems relaxed and cocky, intrigued by the experience of being filmed.

Gerard Malanga reads some of his poems and excerpts from his diaries substituting the word “bufferin” for most of the proper names in the...

A man and a woman live in a clothes-cabinet, literally; they contemplate leaving, but never do. For a time only their voices are heard, until they...

Cathy James (also known as Catherine James) is posed in front of a purple background. The lighting seems not quite as severe as in her two other...

Philip Fagan maintains a motionless pose and an unvarying stare at the camera.

Binghamton Birdie (Richard Stringer) lounging in his underwear. An unused roll from Couch.

William W. ‘Buffy’ Phelps is placed against a speckled backdrop as he squints and blinks furiously at the camera. His nose casts a dark...

A rare, unfinished film by Andy Warhol, Sunset is a meditation on the temporality of an everyday phenomenon. Here, a sunset over the Pacific Ocean in...

A brief genital tuck performance that allows the couch to take center stage. Unused material for Couch.

Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a...

Screen test of Barbara Rose.

Randy Bourscheidt, preppily dressed in a tie and tweed jacket, looks up and down, then shyly faces the camera, trying not to smile. He bites his...

A stationary shot of John Palmer and Ivy Nicholson in this tiny apartment.

Captures the sculptor Marisol posing among her work.

Roderick Clayton looks around in all directions, squints into the light, peers upward, and turns to show both profiles.