Andy Warhol, [Beverly Grant, Naomi Levine, Jack Smith], 1964 16mm film transferred to digital file, black-and-white, silent 3 minutes © The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved. Film still courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum.
Thursday, June 4, 2026, 6:00 pm
Andy Warhol Exposed
Newly Processed Films from the 1960s
Presented in association with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Admission: $12 General / $8 Cinematheque Members
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Be among only the second audience ever to experience newly debuted films Andy Warhol created in the 1960s, which just made their first premiere earlier this year.
In 2024, Katie Trainor, the Museum of Modern Art’s film collections manager, and Greg Pierce, the Andy Warhol Museum’s then-director of film and video, worked together to process more than 80 one-hundred-foot rolls of unprocessed black-and-white and color film left untouched by Warhol and his associates from the early days of Andy Warhol’s Factory filmmaking.
Some 60 years after the rolls were exposed to light, what was uncovered was beautifully grainy raw footage from material shot for Sleep (1964), Kiss (1963), Batman Dracula (1964) and Couch (1964), as well as five unseen screen test portraits featuring Factory regulars like Naomi Levine and the lately lamented Sally Kirkland, along with others we invite the audience to help identify. The footage also captures Warhol’s wanderings throughout the Frank Stella opening at the Leo Castelli Gallery on January 4, 1964 as well as explicit material shot on the Factory couch and in the Factory stairwell. And as an added bonus, five film rolls shot by Factory cinematographer Danny Williams showcasing Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Edie Sedgwick, the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol will also be seen for the second time.
Katie Trainor and Greg Pierce will introduce the screening and share more about the process of bringing this work to light—from the rolls not included in the screening to how the rolls reaffirm what we know and new understandings of Warhol’s filmmaking.
TRT: 71 minutes