Nico Movies

"Not a documentary but the the ruins of an attempted documentary." - Grashina Gabelmann

A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El groupie, an old man reciting poetry, two young...

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar.

Nico, filmed with an unmoving camera, reads a magazine. She scratches her head, flips her hair, looks glumly at the camera, and then rolls the...

A portrait of the ultimate Chelsea Girl. Nico sits for over an hour while dazzling colored lights and psychedelic-patterned slides are projected onto...

A rare, unfinished film by Andy Warhol, Sunset is a meditation on the temporality of an everyday phenomenon. Here, a sunset over the Pacific Ocean in...

A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel's intimate family album featuring the two women who...

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the...

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in...

Recorded on French TV, the concert marked the first time since the breakup of The Velvet Underground that Reed, Cale and Nico were on stage together.

Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of...

Athanor (Nico) is searching for fire. A flame is always at the foreground. Nico naked in tombs, looking at herself in circular mirrors, Nico in...

This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy...

Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the...

Nico swigs from a Coke bottle while the camera maintains constant movement, zooming in and out, panning right and left.

A second screen test featuring Nico and a Hershey bar — the last being ST245. Camera exercises back and forth, from side to side, swinging,...

Scenes of Sausalito, California, including boats, the docks, and streets. Eventually, the setting turns to night and boats appear silhouetted against...

“More than eighty reels of film made up Warhol’s 1967 epic double-screen, twenty-five-hour film **** (FOUR STARS). Reel 20 –...