Four silent minutes with a Velvet Underground legend staring into oblivion.
Screen Test of John Cale
Direction
Warhol's fixed camera as psychological interrogation.
Acting
Cale's refusal to perform is the performance.
Director
Andy Warhol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Warhol shot over 500 Screen Tests; most subjects tried to look cool, Cale looked annoyed.
This is proto-ASMR and proto-YouTube challenge culture simultaneously. The Factory invented everything.
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