Four minutes of Lou Reed staring into your soul. Andy Warhol made this. That's it. That's the movie.
Lou Reed, wearing a black turtleneck sweater and posed against a pale background, with a bright light sharply angled onto his face from the right, stares intently into the camera, his face, in tight close-up, filling the frame.
Direction
Warhol's 'anti-cinema' at its most concentrated.
Production
Single light source, single take, maximum tension.
Director
Andy Warhol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Warhol's 'Screen Tests' series where Factory visitors were filmed with a locked-off camera—no direction, no cuts, pure unguarded celebrity.
Reed reportedly hated this, yet his discomfort creates the tension. Warhol knew his subjects' vanity and anxiety were more interesting than cooperation.
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