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

Sun Feb 12 16:56:53 CST 2012

what part of LOL  do you not........

On Feb 12, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Damon wrote:

> While this presentation of Sleep certainly differs from the  
> original screenings of the film, it is also far from a Youtube  
> hommage.  Vexations played an important role in Warhol's conception  
> of the film, and he took from Satie a working method making  
> possible the editing of his short reels into a lengthy film.
>
> Sorry I don't have time at the moment to unpack this point as I'm  
> running out the door, but here is a link to some supporting  
> literature to this position:
> http://www.warholstars.org/news/johncage.html
>
> Damon S.
>
> On Feb 12, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Myron Ort wrote:
>
>> So 18fps plus sound.  Not so much an homage to Warhol as an homage  
>> to Youtube!   LOL.  At least with Youtube you can turn off the  
>> sound. No sets of ear plugs can do that as completely, and  
>> sometimes the bass from the speakers hits you in the gut anyway  
>> and creates a whole other unwanted experience even with earplugs.   
>> That is how I was forced to sit though the Sistiaga hand painted  
>> film with atrocious noise.  Echhhhhh!  One of the worst cinema  
>> experiences of my life.
>>
>>
>> Myron Ort
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Josh Guilford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> .... .... .... ....
>>>
>>> R.K. Projects + Magic Lantern Cinema Present
>>> a very special screening of:
>>>
>>> SLEEP
>>>  by Andy Warhol
>>>
>>> featuring John Giorno
>>> 5.5hr long-form cinema projected on 16mm film
>>>
>>> w/ a performance of Erik Satie's, Vexations (1893)
>>> by Sakiko Mori, Daryl Seaver and XSV  @ 6:15pm
>>>
>>> Saturday February 18th from 6pm - 2am
>>> 40 Rice Street
>>> Providence
>>> 02907
>>>
>>>
>>>            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
>>>
>>>
>>> “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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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