John Giorno

  • Andy Warhol – Sleep (Full Version) (1963)

    1961-1970Andy WarholExperimentalUSA

    BW/Silent/5 Hrs 21 Mins at 16fps/4 hrs 45 mins at 18fps
    John Giorno

    Andy Warhol:

    “I could never finally figure out if more things happened in the sixties because there was more awake time for them to happen in (since so many people were on amphetamine), or if people started taking amphetamine because there were so many things to do that they needed to have more awake time to do them in… Seeing everybody so up all the time made me think that sleep was becoming pretty obsolete, so I decided I’d better quickly do a movie of a person sleeping. Sleep was the first movie I made when I got my 16mm Bolex.”Read More »

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