![]() ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". ![]() The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Utilizing new interviews, archive footage and rare concert materials, Haynes retraces the origins of the band, their avant-garde rise, and the tensions that eventually force them to disband. Haynes, director of Velvet Goldmine, Carol and Far From Heaven, now chronicles the rise and fall of the band in the director’s first-ever documentary. Related: Lou’s Legacy: 7 Queer-Ass Velvet Underground Songs Lou Reed, in particular, would prove highly influential to David Bowie. That didn’t stop the group’s music or members from becoming widely influential, particularly in the Glam Rock genre. Despite the art-house cred–and the support of popular musicians including Marianne Faithful and Mick Jagger–The Velvet Underground never quite found mainstream stardom and disbanded in 1970. Lead by guitarist/singer (and noted bisexual) Lou Reed, the group became a favorite of artist Andy Warhol and pioneered work on the idea of concept albums that is, albums that tell a loose story about a group of characters, and that mediate on different real-world themes. Academy Award nominee Todd Haynes has just teased his latest cinematic outing, a deep-dive expose on the rock band The Velvet Underground.įor the uninitiated, The Velvet Underground burst onto the music underground in the mid-1960s. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to. If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. ![]() All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations). Virtual Cinema screenings are not available outside the US. Virtual Cinema is not available to Annual Pass members. What could be a clichéd story of a rock band (drugs and narcissism abound it all falls spectacularly apart) is instead a deeply felt love letter to a fleeting time and place: Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker, and Sterling Morrisson in a room together, making songs melodic and terrifying, for just two records. Making heavy use of split screen and archival footage from the era-especially from close Velvet’s collaborator and mastermind Andy Warhol-Haynes summons the band's anarchic style of avant-garde pop in the film’s inventive form. Haynes places the band in the Downtown scene they emerged from, building a portrait of New York City’s 1960s experimental art world so electric and tangible that the VU’s existence seems both a miracle and an inevitability. More a dark magic conjuring than a nostalgia trip, Todd Haynes’s first documentary charts the all-too-brief rise and fall of one of rock ’n‘ roll’s most infamous bands, the Velvet Underground. Not a member? Join today and start streaming. ![]() Virtual Cinema screenings are available exclusively to MoMA members. ![]()
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