Andy Warhol’s 1966 split-screen film featuring scenes from New York’s underground culture is Chelsea Girls.
The film was directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey and was shot at the Chelsea Hotel and other New York locations. It presents loosely connected episodes featuring members of Warhol’s circle, including Nico, Ondine, Mary Woronov, and Gerard Malanga.
Chelsea Girls is especially notable for its two projected images shown side by side, often with different soundtracks. This format helped make the film one of Warhol’s best-known cinematic works and brought aspects of the Factory scene to wider audiences.
It is sometimes confused with Warhol’s Screen Tests, a large series of short portrait films, or with The Velvet Underground, the band Warhol managed and promoted. Chelsea Girls is a feature-length film, not a music group or a collection of brief portraits.