Jim Pollock just wrapped filming and is currently in post-production on a new film created for the internet depicting a day in the life of a linoleum block carving poster artist. Jim’s poster that he laboriously creates throughout the 4 hour long filmed flick is fittingly an homage to Andy Warhol, the avant-garde artist and filmmaker whose movies, such as 1963’s “Sleep” (solely starring John Giorno), served as inspiration.
According to Gerard Malanga, Warhol had mentioned to him an idea for making a film of Brigitte Bardot sleeping for eight hours before Warhol actually owned a movie camera. Although planned as an eight-hour-long movie, Sleep was actually made by looping some of the footage. In Popism, Warhol admits that "I hadn't actually shot that much". This was partially due to the limitations of his Bolex movie camera which could only shoot 4-minute lengths of film. According to Gerard Malanga, "Sleep runs approximately six-and-a-half hours of equivalent shooting time. Andy duplicated an additional ninety minutes from an equal ninety-minute section of the film to stretch it out to eight hours to approximate the scientifically accepted length of time for normal sleep." The premiere of Sleep took place on January 17, 1964 at the Grammercy Arts Theater - a benefit screening for the Film-Makers' Cooperative. According to the New York Post, the screening was attended by only nine people - two of whom left during the first hour.
Hopefully Pollock’s interpretation will be better received on its opening day online.
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