The Velvet Underground frontman eats an apple for 4 minutes. That's it. That's cinema.
Lou Reed, posed in profile wearing dark glasses, slowly eats an apple, chewing carefully between bites; there is no camera movement.
Direction
Warhol's static camera dares you to care.
Production
1966 Factory aesthetic—raw, cheap, iconic.
Director
Andy Warhol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Warhol's 'Screen Tests'—hundreds of silent 16mm portraits of Factory regulars, each designed to expose the subject's true self under unblinking scrutiny.
The apple may nod to the Beatles' Apple Records, or simply be Warhol's wry comment on fame: even rock stars become still life.
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