On Saturday London's ICA gallery screened a series of shorts by the late pop artist Andy, the first time they have been shown in the UK.
The films star various actors, such as Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed and Dennis Hopper, who visited the artist's New York studio in the 1960s. Warhol filmed some 500 people, including friends and lovers, as a sort of mock screen test.
The subjects were given no instructions and this produced some astonishing displays of insecurity in many and Warhol would sometimes actually leave the room while the camera was still rolling.
Discovered 12 years ago, some of the films have been screened in New York but according to the ICA's director Philip Dodd, "Since then, some have been cleaned and restored and sometimes shown at the Museum of Modern Art but some have never been seen in public before and none has been seen in Britain."
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On Saturday London's ICA gallery screened a series of shorts by the late pop artist Andy, the first time they have been shown in the UK.