Sleep (1964)

Directed by

Andy Warhol

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

5h 11m

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent documentary film that shows a man sleeping for over five hours. It is an early experimental work by Andy Warhol.

statichypnoticslow-burnminimalistmeditativemonotonousobservationalquiet

What happens

Sleep is a 1964 American underground film by Andy Warhol. Lasting five hours and 21 minutes, it consists of looped footage of John Giorno, Warhol's lover at the time, sleeping. The film was one of Warhol's first experiments with filmmaking, and was created as an "anti-film". Warhol would later extend this technique to his eight-hour-long film Empire (1965). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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