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Christa Päffgen (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress and model. She had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls (1966). Reviewer Richard Goldstein describes Nico as "half goddess, half icicle" and writes that her distinctive voice "sounds something like a cello getting up in the morning". Description above from the Wikipedia article Nico, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

A portrait of the ultimate Chelsea Girl. Nico sits for over an hour while dazzling colored lights and psychedelic-patterned slides are projected onto her statuesque face. She breaks down in tears during the second reel, which made it into the final version of The Chelsea Girls.

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.

Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.

Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the films of Philippe Garrel circa 1975 and Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls and swirling electronic music from Ash Ra Tempel and new electric guitar sound track by James Creed and tracks to the songs by Graham Dowdall aka Gagarin and ex of The Faction with new images of the River Thames put together in an elegy on iconicity, vocality, finitude and solitude.
![Poster for Screen Test [ST246]: Nico (Hershey)](https://watchedthis.com/api/image-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw342%2FbV5yTv0ma1Tb0szxpzYhWS6gEcp.jpg)
A second screen test featuring Nico and a Hershey bar — the last being ST245. Camera exercises back and forth, from side to side, swinging, stuttering, crawling while Nico enjoys a Hershey bar. She laughs.
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Nico swigs from a Coke bottle while the camera maintains constant movement, zooming in and out, panning right and left.

Shot as a proposed short film behind Iggy Pop's Ann Arbor, MI estate and summarily rejected by Elektra Records as promotional material for Nico's 1968 album, The Marble Index, Evening of Light is a gothic fantasy in a barren cornfield. Nico's song of the same name accompanies the eerie visuals.

On the evening of November 8th, 1966, following the afternoon filming of The George Hamilton Story, a movie in which Warhol cast his mother Julia as an “aging peroxide movie star with a lot of husbands”, – “ We’re trying to bring back old people.” – he took his crew and a much larger cast to Kaleidoscope, fashion designer Tiger Morse’s boutique shop on Madison Avenue in New York City, to shoot his second unreleased film of the day. A nocturnal tale of downtown bulls in an uptown China shop, Paranoia is a portrait of the always captivating, always hilarious Morse as she converses with everyone in front of and behind the camera while genuinely attempting to keep the Superstars in the room from wreaking havoc on her uniquely curated curios.

Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish film I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the story of this male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women over the course of the film. The women are: a young woman who worries about parental acceptance of her sexuality, a woman who is on a couch, a woman with whom he does a seance, a woman who speaks French, a lesbian, and a married woman.

Scenes of Sausalito, California, including boats, the docks, and streets. Eventually, the setting turns to night and boats appear silhouetted against the sky. A woman speaks poetic phrases on the soundtrack; at intervals her face is seen. A band begins to play but ceases again as lights appear in distant windows.

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child.

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discussing the filmmaker’s staple topics: love, psychoanalysis, and the failures of May ’68.

Nico, born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany just before the outbreak of the Second World War is one of the most mythic icons of our time. She was the supermodel who became Andy Warhol’s most notorious muse and the singer of legendary American rock band Velvet Underground. She had a troublesome love story with Jim Morrison and gave her son his first shot. She was a nomad, always on her way to Paris, London, or New York and stood in the center of the sixties’ art revolution. In "Nico – Sphinx of Ice", we are taken on a journey through the psyche of the broken and unbreakable sixties’ icon.

Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the films of Philippe Garrel circa 1975 and Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls and swirling electronic music from Ash Ra Tempel and new electric guitar sound track by James Creed and tracks to the songs by Graham Dowdall aka Gagarin and ex of The Faction with new images of the River Thames put together in an elegy on iconicity, vocality, finitude and solitude.

clips from nicos live perfomances, working with garrel

Nico's 48'49" complete set live at Cinema Le Rond-Point Marseille on Saturday April 12. 1975 ; opening for John Cale Digitized from the master tape for the first time since it was recorded 1. Purple Lips 2. Secret Side 3. The End 4. Janitor of Lunacy 5. Abschied 6. No One Is There 7. Frozen Warnings 8. You Forgot To Answer

Nico's 48'49" complete set live at Cinema Le Rond-Point Marseille on Saturday April 12. 1975 ; opening for John Cale Digitized from the master tape for the first time since it was recorded 1. Purple Lips 2. Secret Side 3. The End 4. Janitor of Lunacy 5. Abschied 6. No One Is There 7. Frozen Warnings 8. You Forgot To Answer

An evening with harmonium & flute. Nico plays stripped down versions of "The Drama of Exile" tracks and some oldies at the Théâtre Campagne-Première, Paris on March 31st, 1978 backed by French flutist Didier Malherbe.



