Sleep (1964 film)

Sleep
Directed byAndy Warhol
Produced byAndy Warhol
StarringJohn Giorno
CinematographyAndy Warhol
Edited byAndy Warhol
Release date
  • January 17, 1964 (1964-01-17)
Running time
321 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

Sleep is a 1964 American underground 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]

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 (1965).[2]

  1. ^ Sandra Brennan (2013). "The New York Times". Movies & TV Dept. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 2013-11-17. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  2. ^ WarholStars entry on Sleep