[Frameworks] Andy Warhol's SLEEP / Providence, RI / Feb 18 / Magic Lantern + RK Projects

Sun Feb 12 12:31:15 CST 2012

Never mind. It looks like they are projecting at 16fps.
excellent.

mo

On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Josh Guilford wrote:

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> R.K. Projects + Magic Lantern Cinema Present
> a very special screening of:
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> SLEEP
>  by Andy Warhol
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> featuring John Giorno
> 5.5hr long-form cinema projected on 16mm film
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> w/ a performance of Erik Satie's, Vexations (1893)
> by Sakiko Mori, Daryl Seaver and XSV  @ 6:15pm
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> Saturday February 18th from 6pm - 2am
> 40 Rice Street
> Providence
> 02907
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>            Andy Warhol, Sleep, 1963,  16mm film, b/w, silent, 5  
> hours and 21 minutes @16fps
>            ©2012 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum  
> of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
>            Film still courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum
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> “What is sleep, after all, but the metabolic transformation of the  
> entire experience
> of time, our nightly release from the clock’s prison…”  -  
> Stephen Koch
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> Sleep harbors a potential to alter the temporal fabric of our  
> world. What would it mean to live the time of sleep while awake, to  
> collectively activate its other temporality in a pocket of space  
> and sleep awake together?  If sleeping together amounts to  
> “sharing an inertia, an equal force that maintains the two bodies  
> together,” then the stillness of sleep may paradoxically give way  
> to a journey, with bodies “drifting like… narrow boats moving  
> off to the same open sea, toward the same horizon always concealed  
> afresh in mists…”1
>
> Magic Lantern Cinema and RK Projects have collaborated to present  
> an off-site screening of Andy Warhol’s 5.5hr anti-film – Sleep.  
> The first film that Warhol made after purchasing a 16mm camera in  
> 1963, Sleep began as an experiment to document an activity that the  
> amphetamine-induced energy of the 1960s seemed to be rendering  
> obsolete. Yet Warhol’s film is not simply a documentary, but an  
> erotic milieu for ruminating the philosophical implications of time  
> and repetition, as well as a physical meditation on the non- 
> narrative materiality of film itself. Warhol completed the film  
> after his experience attending John Cage’s 1963 performance of  
> Erik Satie’s epically repetitive work for piano, Vexations,  
> (1893) – a 52-beat segment played slowly and in succession 840  
> times. The repetitive structure of Vexations is apparent in Sleep  
> as well: recorded as a series of long takes using 100 ft. magazines  
> (approx. 3 mins) shot from multiple angles over a period of several  
> weeks, the shots were then repeated through loop-printing and  
> spliced together end-to-end, with emulsion and perforations left as- 
> is.  And though the entire film was shot at sound speed (24fps), it  
> was meant to be projected at silent speed (16 or 18fps), causing  
> movements to appear in an ethereal slow-motion.  The result is a  
> highly constructed piece of minimalist long-form cinema whose  
> emphasis on time, materiality, repetition, and the quotidian has  
> drawn comparisons to modernist painting while also earning Warhol a  
> position as “the major precursor of structural film” and a 1964  
> Independent Film Award for “taking cinema back to its origins.”2
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> Sleep premiered in New York City’s Gramercy Arts Theater in 1963.   
> But the film’s extreme stillness and duration have been said to  
> promote a more casual and intermittent approach to spectatorship  
> than that affiliated with theatrical exhibition, encouraging  
> viewers to “chat during the screening, leave for a hamburger and  
> return, [or] greet friends [while] the film serenely devolve[s] up  
> there on the screen.”3  In an effort to cultivate such an  
> experience and acknowledge Warhol’s diverse experiments with non- 
> theatrical exhibition forms (from the Factory walls to live  
> multimedia performances), this screening will be held in a vacant,  
> slumbering warehouse at 40 Rice St., generously donated by The  
> Armory Revival Co. in Providence, RI. To mark this significant  
> event, there will also be a staging of the musical performance that  
> inspired the film. Three Providence-based musicians will be  
> conducting a 45 minute performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations  
> immediately preceding the screening. In addition, a selection of  
> relevant reading materials will be on display at the screening.
>
> Refreshments will be provided along with chairs, but viewers can  
> enter and exit at will, and sleeping bags are strongly encouraged.   
> Join us for an evening of Sleep.
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> SUGGESTED DONATIONS
> SLIDING SCALE: $3 - $5
>
> Funded by the Malcolm S. Forbes
> Center for Culture and Media Studies
> Brown University
>
> RK Projects + Magic Lantern Cinema
> 40 Rice Street
> Providence, RI 02907
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> 1 Jean-Luc Nancy, The Fall of Sleep (New York: Fordham UP, 2009): 19.
> 2 P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film (New York: Oxford UP, 2002): 349;  
> Film Culture 33 (Summer 1964): 1.
> 3 Stephen Koch, Stargazer: The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol  
> (New York: Marion Boyars, 1991): 39.
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