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Billy Name

Billy Name

William George Linich, known professionally as Billy Name, was an American photographer, filmmaker, and lighting designer. He was the archivist of The Factory from 1964 to 1970.

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The Velvet Underground (2021)

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era's avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage. ...

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13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (2009)

Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from Warhol superstars and celebrities to friends or anyone he thought had "star potential". All visitors to his studio ...

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A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)

Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right, offers a exploration of the Factory era, an homage to Williams's talent, a journey of family discovery and a compelling inquiry int ...

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrai ...

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Notes on Marie Menken (2006)

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken. ...

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Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol (2005)

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet, never-before-seen images of the "private" Warhol and archival documents from the Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger, Dav ...

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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture (2001)

Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"), gets the definitive treatment. This film includes a look into his inner circle and exam ...

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John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music (1998)

Follows John Cale, a Welsh musician and producer, who founded the legendary 60s and 70s NY rock band - the Velvet Underground, with Lou Reed. Cale delved into other mainstream and experimental music genres as well. ...

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Nico Icon (1995)

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize ...

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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties (1989)

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in collaboration with Simon Field. ...

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Andy Warhol (1987)

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends. Andy Warhol, the son of poor Czech ...

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Four Stars (1967)

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wear ...

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Superartist (1967)

Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at the peak of his powers in 1965 and 1966, around his bustling original "Factory" in midtown Manhattan. Warhol experiments with an early videotape machine, reco ...

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Chelsea Girls (1966)

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be screened via dual projector set-up. ...

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The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound (1966)

The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including Nico, and is essentially one long loose improvisation. ...

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Lupe (1966)

Andy Warhol's film Lupe (1966) restages the mythic account of one celebrity's suicide as a strategic ploy to envision another's. Lupe is known to be Warhol's take on Kenneth Anger's own fabricated account of Lupe Vélez's (also known as Hollywood's 'Mexica ...

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Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of fi ...

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Harlot (1965)

Jean Harlow-lookalike Harlot (Mario Montez), Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-screen voices of Billy Name, Ronald Tavel, and Harry Fainlight discuss various topics. ...

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The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys (1964)

Inspired by a 1962 NYPD pamphlet entitled 'The Thirteen Most Wanted [Men]'. Warhol transformed it from 'most wanted men' into 'most beautiful boys', and then began to film the very first Screen Tests, continuing to film for the series into early 1966, tota ...

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Couch (1964)

The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film ...

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Batman Dracula (1964)

Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol made the movie as a homage. Batman Dra ...

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Screen Test, Billy Linich (1964)

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 24 seconds in length. ...

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Screen Test [ST194]: Billy Linich (1964)

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 30 seconds in length. ...

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Haircut (1964)

Shot in slow motion, with tiny bits of stagy lighting that seem to crumble and flake like cookies, Billy Name gives one of his notorious haircuts--and Warhol turns it into a homoerotic performance, a dance of adoration and control, a triangle of looking an ...

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Screen Test: Billy Name (1964)

Billy Name screen test by Andy Warhol. ...

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