"Andy Warhol: Screen Tests": Moma Qns, New York.(Critical Essay)

From: Artforum International | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

For a time in the 1960s, anyone interestings who visited Warhol's Factory would be invited to sit for a screen test: Starting in 1964, he made more than 500, of which, so far, 277 have been preserved. The Factory camera (not necessarily operated by Warhol) would record the subject on a single unedited one-hundred-foot 16 mm silent cartridge. The tests were shot at sound speed (twenty-four frames per second), but Warhol wanted them projected at silent speed (sixteen flames per second), so they take longer to see than they did to make: They retard time. (The viewing duration of each ...

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