The 13 Most Beautiful Boys

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title 13 Most Beautiful Boys
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1965
length 40 minutes
Rod
Director Andy Warhol
script Andy Warhol
production Andy Warhol
camera Andy Warhol
occupation

The 13 Most Beautiful Boys is a Underground - experimental film by Andy Warhol . Like the previous 13 Most Beautiful Women, the 40-minute silent film , shot in black and white on 16mm , is a work of conceptual art and a compilation of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests produced in 1964 and 1965. His mural Thirteen was only a few months earlier Most Wanted Men in the world's Fair in New York fell victim to censorship. There is just as little "plot" in this art film as in Warhol's other early experimental films . There are only based on mug shots shown each actor about three minute portraits that something be played slower than they were recorded. The film only exists in the original copy (now in the Whitney Museum of American Art ) and has not been shown publicly.

Reviews

Sarah Boxer of the New York Times wrote on the occasion of an exhibition at MoMA that the recordings were of different interest depending on the actor. Warhol uncovered the mechanics of restlessness and charisma through the slowed recordings.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "What do you learn at the school of screen tests? Nothing at all. Well, maybe one thing: by shooting the films at one speed and playing them more slowly, Warhol exposed the mechanics of discomposure and charisma. "(Sarah Boxer: " CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Andy Warhol's 'Screen Tests' Were 3- Minute Eternities " , May 23, 2003, accessed November 24, 2008)

literature

  • Enno Patalas (ed.): Andy Warhol and his films: A documentary . Heyne, Munich 1971, ISBN 0-200-41991-9 .
  • Stephen Koch: Stargazer. The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol . London 1974; Updated reissue by Marion Boyars, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7145-2920-6 .
  • Bernard Blistène (Ed.): Andy Warhol, Cinema: à l'occasion de l'Exposition Andy Warhol Rétrospective (21 juin - 10 septembre 1990) organized à Paris par le Musée National d'Art Moderne au Center Georges Pompidou . Ed. du Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-908393-30-1 .
  • Debra Miller: Billy Name: Stills from the Warhol films . Prestel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1367-3 .
  • Astrid Johanna Ofner (Ed.): Andy Warhol - Filmmaker. A retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum October 1 to 31, 2005 . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-282-6 .

Web links