Iconic Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick takes centre stage in the legendary Ciao! Manhattan. Blending fact with fiction and filled with mesmerising footage of the infamous 60s underground art scene, this cult film tells the story of the original It Girl'. Sedgwick died shortly after the film was completed, leaving Ciao! Manhattan as a haunting portrait of a cultural icon. Special Features: The lost Ciao! Manhattan reels Feature commentary by co-directors John Palmer and David Weisman and actor Wesley Hayes Video interviews with George Plimton, costume designer Betsey Johnson, David Weisman and Wesley Hayes Original trailer New English subtitles for the hearing impaired
Between 1964 and 1966 Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals from the famous to the anonymous all visitors to his studio the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent black and white 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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