The Cure for Insomnia (1987)
- Directed by
- John Henry Timmis IV
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 87h
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A single reading of a very long poem fills nearly 87 hours of film. Clips from heavy metal and adult videos appear rarely. The movie was shown continuously once and all copies are now lost.
experimentalmonotonousendlessbizarrestaticabsurdhypnoticminimalist
What happens
The Cure for Insomnia is a 1987 experimental film directed by John Henry Timmis IV, which was, according to Guinness World Records, the longest running film. At 5,220 minutes long (87 hours, or 3 days and 15 hours) in length, the film has no plot, instead consisting of artist L. D. Groban reading his 4,080-page poem A Cure for Insomnia over the course of three and a half days, spliced with occasional clips from heavy metal and pornographic videos. It was first played in its entirety at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Illinois), from January 31 to February 3, 1987, in one continuous showing. It has not been released on DVD or other home video formats and all known copies are considered to be lost, with only 85 seconds of the film being available. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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