Movies: Billy Name

Inspired by a 1962 NYPD pamphlet entitled ‘The Thirteen Most Wanted [Men]’. Warhol transformed it from ‘most wanted men’ into ‘most beautiful boys’, and then began to film the very first Screen Tests, continuing to film for the series into early 1966...

Shot in slow motion, with tiny bits of stagy lighting that seem to crumble and flake like cookies, Billy Name gives one of his notorious haircuts--and Warhol turns it into a homoerotic performance, a dance of adoration and control, a triangle of look...

Billy Name screen test by Andy Warhol....

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 24 seconds in length....

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 30 seconds in length....