Dean & Britta have composed a baker's dozen songs for a project that focuses on Andy Warhol's  "screen tests," in which individuals were seated in front of a camera for four minutes and filmed in silent portraiture.
“13 Most Beautiful … Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” will debut in Pittsburgh as part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts on Oct. 24 and 25. Warhol was a native of Pittsburgh.
Project will use the screen tests of Lou Reed, Richard Rheem, Dennis Hopper, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Susan Bottomly and seven others.
The four-minute, silent film portraits will be shown via large scale video projection with the musicians performing live on stage.
Warhol shot approximately 500 "screen tests" between  1963 and 1966. The subjects — both famous and anonymous — were visitors to his studio, the Factory. They were asked to pose, lit with a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film.  Each screen test lasted only as long as the roll of film. The films were projected in slow motion so that each lasted four minutes. 
The screen tests were also used, as were other Warhol films, as part of the light show for his 1966 Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows that featured the Velvet Underground and Nico.