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Film: Shorts
Celebrate Brooklyn presents Dean & Britta's 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests w/ Crystal Stilts
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Dean & Britta, Photo: Michael Lavine
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Saturday Aug 1, 2009 (7:30pm)
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Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol amassed 472 Screen Tests, immortalizing the Factory coterie, friends, and random posers in four-minute bursts of lustrous, slow-motion monochrome. Facing the camera, each sitter acts and reacts idiosyncratically: Edie Sedgwick stares into the near-distance with a dear-in-headlights allure; Lou Reed looks tough as he knocks back a Coke; and Dennis Hopper zones out, only to slacken into a mischievous smile. Dean & Britta score 13 of these minimalist portraits with hypnotic originals, covers, and instrumentals — i.e. during Nico's vignette, they redo "I'll Keep It With Mine," which Dylan penned for the Teutonic chanteuse. Beforehand, the Crystal Stilts set the evening's lost-in-thought tenor with some gloomy, garage-pop.
