Sleep(1964)

Sleep is a 1964 experimental film that consists entirely of footage of poet and artist John Giorno sleeping. Running five hours, the film strips cinema down to its most minimal form—a single, unbroken take of a man at rest. Director Andy Warhol created the work as a radical challenge to conventional narrative filmmaking, transforming the mundane act of sleep into an endurance piece for both viewer and subject. The film's static camera and real-time duration demand patience and presence from audiences, making it as much a meditation on time, attention, and cinema itself as it is a portrait. Sleep remains a landmark of avant-garde cinema and a defining work of the 1960s underground film movement.