The Velvet Underground Release Only Full-Length Footage Filmed By Andy Warhol

This color collage of a Velvet Underground concert is unique in its own, and is a window into 1967 that has never before been seen.

This 33 minute video is highly psychedelic and abstract in nature, this video is perfectly suited for the setlist it has been put to, which seem to be studio recordings and not recordings from the concert where the footage was taken, as the cuts often happen at specific song changes and there is absolutely no crowd noise in the recordings between songs. The camera focuses a lot on the crowd interaction and experiments heavily with flash cuts that add to the choppy experimental format that Warhol explores here. Its free verse video that delves into the feeling that was perceptibly in the air at the concert on that night.

The sudden zooms and the sweeping pans, along with the distorted shaking and spotlight flashes create a visceral scene to behold. The collaboration of each odd effect, along with the different color lighting and the close up shots of indiscernible objects are also off-putting and fit the mood of the music very well. The shots that focus on the lights switching colors back and forth between blue and red, quick dissolves that, for a split second, overexpose their subjects are also excellent. It is very weird, very velvet and very in the moment that it was created. It fits exactly what happened that night at the Boston Tea Party, where it was apparently shot. The setlist includes “Venus in Furs”, “Waiting For The Man”, “Run, Run, Run”, “Sister Ray” and “Heroin”

Check it out below!