Presented by: Out There

Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York`s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll.

In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band`s incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol`s fabled Factory, and the explosive tension between pop and the avant-garde that propelled the group and ultimately consumed it.

Never-before-seen performances, interviews, rare recordings, and mind-blowing transmissions from the era`s experimental cinema scene come together in an ecstatic swirl of sound and image that is to the traditional music documentary what the Velvets were to rock: utterly revolutionary.