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Films screenings are free with museum admission and are shown in the New Media Theater in the Sackler Center for Arts Education.

Documentary Films

A series of summer screenings on the Guggenheim Museum and Haunted exhibition artist, Andy Warhol.

Art, Architecture and Innovation, 2009
Mondays, July 12, 19, and 26, 12:30, 1, 1:30, and 2 pm
Blu-ray, 27 min.
Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

This documentary film reveals the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum building, collections, and exhibitions as well as the development of the Guggenheim Foundation’s international network. With archival materials and talks by Solomon Guggenheim and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, footage includes interviews with artists, art historians, architects, architectural historians, and curators.

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, 2006
Mondays, Aug 2, 9, and 16, 12:30 pm
Directed by Ric Burns
DVD, 240 min. (parts 1 and 2)
Courtesy Steeplechase Films, Inc.; High Line Productions and Daniel Wolf, Inc.; and Thirteen/WNET

This moving film portrait of one of the 20th-century’s most important artists explores the turbulent and constantly changing context of his life and times. Combining on-camera interviews and never-before-seen still and motion-picture footage with testimony of Andy Warhol's vast body of work, the film is the first to exploit in-depth the immense archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Artist Films for Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

These films explore themes from the Haunted exhibition, including Appropriation and the Archive; Landscape, Architecture, and the Passage of Time; Documentation and Reiteration; and Trauma and the Uncanny.

Andy Warhol: Screen Tests, 1964–66
Fridays, July 9 and 16, 1, 2, 3, and 4 pm
Soundtrack by Dean Wareham and Britta Philips
16mm black-and-white film, silent, transferred to DVD, 4 min. each at 16 frames per second
Collection The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Screen Tests © 2010 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved

Shot at Warhol’s Factory, the artist’s famous Screen Tests feature silent black-and-white film portraits of Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, and Dennis Hopper, among others. The screen tests presented here, from 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol Screen Tests (2009), include newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips.

Johan Grimonprez: dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997
Fridays, July 23, 30, and Aug 6, 1, 2:15, and 3:30 pm
Written and directed by Johan Grimonprez; original music and sample collage by David Shea. Excerpts from Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985) and Mao II (1991); produced by STUK Kunstencentrum (Het Atelier), Leuven, Netherlands, and Musée d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, with the support of Documenta X, Kassel, Germany; Fundación Provincial de Cultura – Diputación de Cádiz, Spain; Klapstuk 97, Leuven; The Faces of Flanders and the Ministry of the Flemish Community, Brussels
DVD, 68 min.
Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y presents a visual chronology of airplane hijackings, with a soundtrack creating a fictional narrative inspired by Don DeLillo’s novels White Noise (1985) and Mao II (1991). Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y intersperses reportage, clips from science fiction films, found footage, and reconstituted scenes filmed by the artist, highlighting the spectacle value of disaster in an eerie foreshadowing of 9/11.

Samuel Beckett: Film, 1965
Fridays, Aug 13, 20, and Sept 3, 1, 2, 3, and 4 pm
16mm black-and-white film, silent, transferred to DVD, 21 min.
Courtesy Evergreen Review and Barney Rosset

Stan Douglas: Vidéo, 2007
Fridays, Aug 13, 20, and Sept 3, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, and 4:30 pm
High-definition video installation, 6 musical variations, 18 min. 11 sec.
Courtesy the artist

Samuel Beckett’s sole venture into cinema, Film was shot in New York during his only trip to America. Directed by Alan Schneider, the leading director of Beckett’s plays in the United States, and starring Buster Keaton, the dialogueless film takes its basis in Berkeley’s theory Esse est percipi: To be is to be perceived. Presented as a companion piece to Film, Stan Douglas’s Vidéo reflects the artist’s longstanding artistic dialogue with the works of Beckett.

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany 1918–1936 Film

Although no longer in its infancy, the art of film was a new and exciting medium in the interwar years. With a selection spanning the range from the experimental to the historical epic, this film program provides the opportunity to discover the celluloid complement to the powerful aesthetics of Chaos and Classicism.