13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol Screen Tests | Festival Panoràmic

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This year the Panoràmic festival dedicates an exhibition to Andy Warhol's Screen tests at the Roca Umbert Art Space in Granollers.

The theme of this year's edition is “Rethinking the face” and, in this context, Warhol's filmed portraits, in their Film/Still ambiguity and deliberately inexpressive gestures, represented a revulsion against the ubiquitous forced smile and advertising of actors and politicians.

Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol signed more than 470 filmed portraits of people around him. These portraits, inspired by images from police files and photo booths, as much as by Hollywood screen tests, make up a valuable documentation of New York in the sixties.

The selection we will see was made by the Andy Warhol Museum in 2008, when they proposed to Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips to create a soundtrack under the title 13 Most Beautiful Songs.
Credits: Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper [ST155], 1964 16mm film, black-and-white, silent, 4.3 minutes at 16 frames per second © The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved. Film still courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum.

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