Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips: 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests November 20, 2008

Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | 8:00PM
Performance Space

"The deeper commitment of both artists to their songs and one another comes across with smoldering intensity...the defining tone of hushed but bracing intimacy is well established." —Pop Matters

Husband and wife team Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of indie darlings Luna and currently recording and performing as Dean & Britta, have composed new music for a special selection of Warhol’s famous Screen Tests, which they will accompany live with their band. The Screen Tests—four-minute black-and-white silent film portraits from the 1960s—were used, as were other Warhol films, as part of the light show for Warhol’s 1966 multimedia happening, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which showcased the radical art rock of the Velvet Underground. Dean & Britta (who also scored the acclaimed feature film The Squid and the Whale) probe the subtle nuances of mood reflected in the Screen Tests’ portraits, lyrically and musically illuminating the shadowed psyches of the candidates for Factory Superstardom who willingly submitted to Warhol’s cool cinematic gaze.

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