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Categories: Film
Keywords: Concept | Minimalism | Narration | Cinema | Time
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
John Miller «No More Boring Art»
Works by Andy Warhol:
Check as well:
Bill Viola «The Threshold»
Andy Warhol
«Sleep»
In his films as in his art, he was fascinated by the borders between the real and reproduced. The titles of Warhol’s first films [...] are, in their conceptual simplicity, Minimalist expressions of a direct cinema of representation. There is no soundtrack and the films are projected not at the standard sound speed of 24 frames per second, but at silent speed–16 fps–thus further retarding the minimal action. The six-hour film ‹Sleep› (1963) shows poet John Giorno in various positions of sleep. Warhol elongated the ‹action,› recorded on 100-foot rolls of film, by repeating filmed segments through loop printing. The concluding image is a frozen still.
(Source: John G. Hanhardt, The Films of Andy Warhol: A Cultural Context, in: Whitney Museum of American Art (ed.), The Films of Andy Warhol, exhib. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1988, p. 10.)
