Film Schedule

Warhol made only a few films which can be regarded as conceptual works, of which Sleep and Empire are the best examples. Warhol had the idea for Sleep — an eight hour film of a man sleeping — even before he bought his first movie camera, and began shooting footage of the poet John Giorno in July 1963. The finished film, however, is only 5-and-a-half hours long, a length which Warhol achieved by splicing together multiple copies of 4-minute camera rolls — a technique which he never used again in his filmmaking.