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Empire is a 1965 American black-and-white silent art film by Andy Warhol. When projected according to Warhol's specifications, it consists of eight hours and five minutes of slow motion footage of an unchanging view of New York City's Empire State Building.
Nov 9, 2022 · Empire is a 1965 American black-and-white silent art film by Andy Warhol. When projected according to Warhol's specifications, it consists of eight hours and five minutes of slow motion footage...
Empire: Directed by John Palmer, Andy Warhol. With Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol. A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
Jan 16, 2014 · Andy Warhol’s 1964 film “Empire” is seven hours of the Empire State Building doing nothing. What’s it like to watch the whole thing?
Empire is an epic black-and-white silent film that consists of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building taken from the forty-fourth floor of the Time-Life Building in midtown Manhattan. Without characters or a traditional narrative, the work’s aesthetic objective is to explore the passage of time.
Perhaps Warhol's most notorious film -- a stationary eight-hour static shot of the Empire State building, beginning after 8pm in the fading light of sunset, and continuing through nightfall until about about 2:30am in the morning.
A perfect example of Warhol shaking up convention and exploring new ways of making cinema, Empire is challenging in places and thematically familiar in others. The haunting imagery and dystopian vision of the film deserves comparison to Godard's Alphaville.
