Screen Test [ST19]: Timothy Baum

The art collector Timothy Baum, in the mod style of the mid-1960s with a high collar and long sideburns, seems unable to relax, repeatedly swallowing, taking deep breaths, and even speaking briefly to the camera.

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick & Kipp Stagg

Screen Test of Edie Sedgwick and Kipp Stagg (aka Bima Stagg).

Crash Test Dummies: A Smashing History

Engineer Jem Stansfield investigates how the crash test dummy has become an icon for safety. For 65 years he has been crashed, smashed and impaled, evolving from a simple military mannequin into a highly sophisticated me

Screen Test [ST132]: Brooke Hayward

Brooke Hayward is framed off-centre against a completely black background, with a single light source sharply angled onto her face from the right. She starts with a smile at someone off-screen, but then becomes more pens

Screen Test [ST90]: Kelly Edey

Winthrop Kellogg ‘Kelly’ Edey, collector of antique clocks and watches, is shot from below, with Edey’s head tilted back and somewhat foreshortened. He makes subtle changes in his expression throughout the film.

The Electric Acid Surfboard Test

The Electric Acid Surfboard Test is an exploration of alternative surfboard design, and a radical and open-minded addition to Stab Magazine's blind taste test of the world's best surfboards, Stab in The Dark. Featuring

Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship

Alixe is courted by many admirers. Her most persistent companion is Morton Shaw. Arlington Tappan also loves Alixe, and urges her to give up her associations with Shaw. She does so and is very happy until Arlington becom

La Sfida del Bechdel test

The Test and the Art of Thinking

Parents, educators, students and college admissions professionals all intimately understand the financial, emotional and intellectual burden of the SAT/ACT—tests that are not only an integral part of the college admissio

Screen Test [ST68]: Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí glares aghast at the camera, his head held high and lit dramatically from below. Halfway through the film, there is a sudden in-camera edit, and Dalí disappears from view; the rest of the film shows only th

Test Tape Fat Chance John Cage

Seven screens show videos of as many places in Bruce Nauman's studio during the summer of 2000. He filmed these slices of night life with an infrared camera and processed them during editing. But one person is conspicuou

Screen Test [ST72]: Susanne De Maria

Susanne De Maria glances around, tilts her head, leans back, smokes, and occasionally smiles at the camera, revealing her dimples.

Endurance Test: The 1000 Days

For the latest chapter of Endurance Test, Los Angeles-based director Ivan Olita talks about his portrait of the monks of Mount Hiei, Japan, where spiritual practices hearken back thousand of years, and where the kaihōgyō

Screen Test [ST126]: David Hallacy

The first of two known David Hallacy screen test's, directed by Andy Warhol.

Molina's Test

A young Cuban couple gets lost, and searching for a place to stay the night, enters the home of M. Wong and Madame Tsu, who have sinister plans for them.

She is the Test Word He

Slob Seryoga, who is interested in nothing but cars and dubstep, works in a pawn shop. One day, he decides to give a girl, Zheka, a ride home from the bus stop and immediately falls in love with her. However, the guys fr

Look at Life: Driving Test

Driving school tuition, including the innovative mock-up car, the junior driver course and the training of police drivers and London bus drivers.

Screen Test [ST265]: Lou Reed (Eye)

Begins with a close-up of Lou Reed’s eye; the camera then zooms out to a slightly broader view of his face. Toward the end he glances briefly away from the camera. Made for projection behind the Velvet Underground in per

King Kong Color Test Footage

Here is the test footage by the late, but great David Allen recreating the climax from the original King Kong (1933) at Cascade Pictures. This was made when there were rumours of a remake coming around the corner (mainl

The Test of Time: The Genesis of Hard Boiled

In-depth interviews with Hard Boiled's core creative team.