Over three Sundays in October, the Dryden will feature a number of rarely screened works by influential pop artist and experimental filmmaker Andy Warhol, made during the icon’s most productive era, 1964 to 1966. All of the films will be shown in their original 16mm format, and several of the presentations will employ Warhol’s technique of side-by-side dual projections. The programs were curated by University of Rochester professor and Warhol specialist Douglas Crimp.
Restaurant, Outer and Inner Space, and Lupe (all screening October 5) all offer different guises of Warhol’s glamorous, doomed superstar Edie Sedgwick. Warhol’s supreme achievement, Chelsea Girls (October 19), utilizes two projectors to show the lives of a number of bizarre residents of New York’s famed Chelsea Hotel. Callie Angel, curator of the Andy Warhol Film Project, will present a special program of silent film “screen tests” featuring visitors to Warhol’s Factory from 1964 to 1967 on October 26.