Sleep (2015)

Fifty years since Andy Warhol made his famous film debut, a Swedish artist films eight instead of five hours of solid sleep for this video remake. As contemporary audiovisual technology allows anyone to make such monumental works, it is the notion of sleep itself that has become the topic of debate.

Date of release
2015-01-22
TMDB
1.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
8h 0m
Director
Juha Lilja

Interesting facts

Sleep is a 2013 film directed by Juha Lilja consisting of approximately 1 hour long takes about Lilja himself sleeping naked. Multiple camera angles are used, and the film also contains dream sequences, which are shot on a drone and a motorcycle. The film premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2015 as a part of its Signals 24/7 theme, which was focusing on how the attention economy and technological improvements have changed society. Other films from the director have been screened in festivals in Asia and USA.

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