Sleep (1964 film)
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Sleep is a 1964 American avant-garde 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.[1]
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Directed by | Andy Warhol |
Produced by | Andy Warhol |
Starring | John Giorno |
Cinematography | Andy Warhol |
Edited by | Andy Warhol |
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Running time | 321 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent |
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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.[2]