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Andy Warhol «Empire (excerpt)»
 


 
Andy Warhol «Empire»

Categories: Film

Keywords: Cinema | Perception | Time

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Works by Andy Warhol:

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Wolfgang Staehle «empire 24/7»


United States | 8 h | Screenplay: John Palmer; Cinematografie: Jonas Mekas; Organization: Henry Rommey; Cast: Andy Warhol | Director: Andy Warhol/John Palmer | Edition / Production: Andy Warhol | Archive / Collection: ZKM Videosammlung, Karlsruhe | 16mm-film
 

 Andy Warhol
«Empire»

The Empire State Building filmed for 8 consecutive hours from dusk till dawn of the following day, shot on the night of the 25th of June 1964 from the 44th floor of the Time Life Building. «Empire» is an object-trouvé, a ready-made that prefigured today’s webcam images. It can also be considered a ‹structural film›: the obsessive repetition of the same image triggers our focus on the act of looking, on the value of the frame and most of all on the film duration. Time of reality and time of cinema are the same.