Art meets Film

A new film portrait of Lindsay Lohan by artist Richard Phillips. 

Back in the 1960s Andy Warhol created a large number of film portraits. Known as 'Screen Tests' they reveal his lifelong fascination with celebrity featuring among others poet Allen Ginsberg, musician Lou Reed and actor Dennis Hopper (below).

A recent exhibition 'Motion Pictures' at MOMA in New York scaled up twelve Screen Tests and projected them on the gallery walls seven feet high by nine feet wide. Warhol shot the portraits at the standard speed for sound film (24 frames per second), but specified that they should be projected at 16 frames per second, the conventional projection speed for silent films in the early period of cinema. Played on a silent loop it gives them an eerie, timeless quality, especially considering most if not all of the subjects are now dead.