[MOVIE]
16mm. D.: 33’. Col.
The Velvet Underground in Boston, which Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques – sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of light like paparazzi flash bulbs going off – that mirror the kinesthetic experience of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights, whip dancers, colorful slide shows, multi-screen projections, liberal use of amphetamines, and overpowering sound of The Velvet Underground.
Restoration credits
Preserved by the Andy Warhol Museum through Avant- Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation