Sleep
Filmfest 2015
USA 1963
Original version
(Original: without sound)
Director: Andy Warhol
Section: Homage | Andy Warhol
SLEEP, made in 1963, though less direct in its exploration of what is seductive on the screen than BLOW JOB, holds a mirror up to our consciousness. It is not voyeurism but an allegory and metaphor on American movies' selfimposed straightjacket of cinematic codes, forms and adornments. Warhol gives us a new but more integral way of looking at things, a way that is not so much interested in special effects and fast action but sublte nuances. Warhol wanted to seduce us all to re-examine our way of looking at the world.
This film is part of the „Silent Program“
Also in this Program:
BLOW JOB
HAIRCUT (NO.1)
Photo © 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Cast: John Giorno
Credits
Director: Andy Warhol