Andy Warhol Movie Trailers

Screen Test [ST160]: Imu Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

The model Imu faces the camera straight on, her face framed in a helmetlike haircut. The bright light causes her to blink nearly continuously; there is a hair in the lower right-hand corner of the frame.

Haircut Trailer (1964)

14 March 1964

Shot in slow motion, with tiny bits of stagy lighting that seem to crumble and flake like cookies, Billy Name gives one of his notorious haircuts--and Warhol turns it into a homoerotic performance, a dance of adoration and control, a triangle of looking and keeping-at-bay, that is a slightly dullish but finally essential contribution to Warhol's long project of bringing portraiture technologies to moviemaking.

Elvis at Ferus Trailer (1963)

06 June 1963

A short documenting Andy Warhol’s exhibition of silk-screened Elvis paintings at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

Persistence of Vision Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse.

Andy Warhol fifteen minutes-Episode 2 Trailer (1987)

02 January 1987

Sausalito Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

Scenes of Sausalito, California, including boats, the docks, and streets. Eventually, the setting turns to night and boats appear silhouetted against the sky.

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.

Chelsea Hotel Trailer (1981)

03 January 1981

This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel.

The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys Trailer (1964)

20 November 1964

Inspired by a 1962 NYPD pamphlet entitled ‘The Thirteen Most Wanted [Men]’. Warhol transformed it from ‘most wanted men’ into ‘most beautiful boys’, and then began to film the very first Screen Tests, continuing to film for the series into early 1966, totalling more than 13 Screen Tests.

Vivian’s Girls Trailer (1973)

25 August 1973

Conventionally “soapish” drama focusing on Vivian, a broke aging actress who runs a rooming house for young girls and drag queens.

The Velvet Underground in Boston Trailer (1967)

15 February 1967

This newly unearthed film, which Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques.

13 Most Beautiful Women Trailer (1964)

07 December 1964

Screen Test: Marisol Trailer (1964)

04 May 1964

Marisol has been posed against a light-coloured background and carefully lit from left and right. Her face emerges from the dark mass of her hair.

Screen Test [ST345]: Virginia Tusi Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

A young woman identified only as Virginia Tusi, is posed against a light plywood backdrop and wearing dangling, flower-shaped earrings.

Screen Test [ST55]: Alicia Purchon Clark Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

Alicia Purchon Clark looks around in a brightly lit room.

Screen Test [ST2]: Charles Aberg Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

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

Screen Test [ST156]: Peter Hujar Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

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.

Screen Test [ST263]: Lou Reed Trailer (1966)

05 October 1966

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, stares intently into the camera, his face, in tight close-up, filling the frame.

Screen Test [ST52] Lucinda Childs Trailer (1964)

17 July 1964

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Childs. Runs 4 minutes, 30 seconds in length.

Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love" Trailer (1963)

21 October 1963

Andy Warhol film.

Drunk Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

"In January 1965, over drinks at the Russian Tea Room, the documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio (Point of Order, In the Year of the Pig) warily agreed to collaborate with Warhol on a movie.

Screen Test [ST122]: Beverly Grant Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Beverly Grant entangles herself in her own hair; using it as a prop by spreading and lifting her long black tresses with long spidery fingers.

Screen Test [ST195]: Donyale Luna Trailer (1967)

19 August 1967

Luna appears in one of Warhol’s famous screen tests. Contrary to Warhol’s preferred stasis, she acknowledges the camera with a series of smiles, winks, and suggestive facial expressions.

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread Trailer (1987)

18 March 1987

Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have invaded Earth and who, disgruntled and bored with the mundane nature of human life, threaten to blow up the planet unless someone gives them a good reason not to.

Andy Warhol Trailer (1965)

10 September 1965

Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken.

Andy Warhol: Made in China Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

A look at the man behind the legend, capturing the real Andy Warhol, as an artist and as a person, as he travels through China, from Hong Kong's glitter to the mystique of Peking's Forbidden City.

Dynamite Chicken Trailer (1971)

20 January 1971

A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement.

3 Min. Mary Might Trailer (1966)

09 July 1966

Compilation reels of silent, black-and-white, 100-foot rolls that were assembled for use as background projection during the filming of other films made in 1966.

Screen Test [ST194]: Billy Linich Trailer (1964)

11 May 1964

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 30 seconds in length.

Velvet Underground: Under Review Trailer (2006)

25 April 2006

Velvet Underground Under Review is a 75 minute film reviewing the music and career of one of rock musics most influential collectives; a band which esteemed music journalist Lester Bangs claims started modern music.

SCREEN TEST [ST256]: BUFFY PHELPS Trailer (1965)

17 June 1965

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

Henry Geldzahler Trailer (1964)

05 July 1964

Henry Geldzahler is a feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol, featuring art curator Henry Geldzahler smoking a cigar and becoming increasingly uncomfortable for 97 minutes.

SCREEN TEST [ST164]: CATHY JAMES Trailer (1965)

10 June 1965

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 Screen Tests (ST162 and ST163).

Screen Test [ST141]: Jane Holzer Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Screen Test of the model ‘Baby Jane’ Holzer.

Andy Warhol : Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man Trailer (1965)

09 June 1965

One of the most important films in Malanga's body of work is his series of movie portraits of Andy Warhol from 1964-65.

Soap Opera Trailer (1964)

27 June 1964

Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Lester Persky, among Factory regulars, intercuts television commercials of its day with silent domestic scenes shot by Warhol.

Screen Test [ST58]: Roderick Clayton Trailer (1966)

01 January 1966

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

Screen Test [ST286]: Barbara Rubin Trailer (1965)

01 January 1965

Barbara Rubin, posed against a white wall and brightly lit from the right, smokes, shifts position constantly, glances around, leans forward to put her cigarette out, and gazes off into space.

Screen Test [ST72]: Susanne De Maria Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

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

Screen Test [ST100]: Bea Feitler Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

Bea Filter looks on from one side of the frame, directed by Andy Warhol

SCREEN TEST [ST224]: STERLING MORRISON Trailer (1966)

15 July 1966

Sterling Morrison, bass guitarist of The Velvet Underground, is filmed in an extreme close-up of his left eye, which looks around in all directions.

Suicide Trailer (1965)

14 April 1965

Two men verbally enact the chronology of an actor’s failed romantic connections and repeated suicide attempts.

SCREEN TEST [ST311]: EDIE SEDGWICK Trailer (1965)

09 June 1965

The film is an exposure test, with a poorly focused image of Edie Sedgwick getting darker and darker at regular intervals.

Screen Test [ST125]: Hal Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

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

SCREEN TEST [ST91]: CASS ELLIOT Trailer (1966)

15 July 1966

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 into a single close-up; toward the end of the shot, there is a sudden adjustment in the lighting, and Elliot begins to smile.

The John Trailer (1966)

20 August 1966

The story of two men (Ed Hood, Patrick Fleming ) in bed whose assignation gets interrupted by friends and neighbours.

SCREEN TEST [ST288]: PHOEBE RUSSELL Trailer (1966)

15 July 1966

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 also increasingly melancholy as her eyes tear up.