Sleep #2
Andy Warhol’s debut film Sleep (1963) captured his lover John Giorno as he slept naked in bed, for more than five hours.
Radu Jude, Romania’s most reliably impertinent creative force, conceived this significantly shorter film, composed of a year’s worth of webcam footage of Warhol’s grave. A more definitive form of sleep, one could say, although the space created by the camera welcomes a whole world of life’s expressions in its patient embrace. In the words of the filmmaker, Sleep #2 means: life, death, nature, poetry, fragility, impressionism, selfies, Andy Warhol, love and kisses.