Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol—nurturing a career-long fascination with the transience of celebrity—created revealing cinematic portraits of the movie stars, socialites, poets, drag queens, and fresh-faced Gotham arrivals that visited the Factory, his New York studio. They were asked to pose, lit with a strong key light, and were filmed with a stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent 100-foot rolls of black-and-white film. The resulting 2 ¾-minute films—known as Screen Tests—were projected in slow motion so that each lasted four minutes. Many were included in shifting compilations and were also used, as were other Warhol films, as part of the light show for the 1966 multimedia happening, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. A selection of Warhol’s Screen Tests, which for many years were rarely seen, will be screened during a unique evening of multimedia performance at the Palace of Fine Arts with shimmering atmospheric music composed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of the indie rock band Luna and currently of Dean & Britta. The duo will perform live onstage before large-scale video projections of a selection of Warhol’s silent “living portraits.” This project is jointly commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.Tickets are $20 for SFFS year-round members and $25 for the general public. $75 VIP tickets include reserved seating and a private, post-screening reception with Dean & Britta in attendance.
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