"The newly discovered moving image work—totaling over an hour in length—includes eight new Screen Test portraits of Warhol collaborators and unused footage shot for his films Batman Dracula, Sleep, and Couch. The most significant find is several rolls of pornographic footage that shed new light on Warhol's ambitions in the 1960s. They prove that the artist had been capturing explicit scenes on the couch of his famous Factory studio long before making Blue Movie, the salacious 1969 feature that would inspire a "porno chic" phenomenon."
"MoMA's film archivist, Katie Trainor, and Greg Pierce, former director of film and video at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, were looking through an archive of Warhol films held by MoMA at a facility in Pennsylvania. When they first stumbled on the box labelled "raw stock," they assumed the rolls would be empty, but on closer inspection they found evidence that they had been used."
Previously undeveloped films shot by Andy Warhol and his team have been recovered and will premiere in a one-night-only screening at New York's Museum of Modern Art next Monday. The recovered reels total over an hour and include eight new Screen Test portraits of Warhol collaborators along with unused footage shot for Batman Dracula, Sleep, and Couch. Several rolls contain pornographic footage filmed on the Factory couch years before the 1969 Blue Movie, revealing earlier explicit ambitions. The films provide evidence of Warhol's pioneering creative vision and illuminate his avant-garde cultural milieu. The long-forgotten rolls were found in 2015 during digitization when archivists inspected a box labeled "raw stock" and discovered used film.
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