Andy Warhol, the deliciously crass and unavoidably relevant pop-artist, continues his reign of unconventional artistry with a screening of the less than beloved Empire, a film featuring an eight-hour time-lapse of the iconic Empire State Building.
Ranked by various polls as one of the most boring films of the century, avant-gardists take to the one-shot production as an artistic expression of the beauty and marvel behind the "greatest city in the world," summarized by its most prestigious and emblematic structure, the Empire State Building.
Eight hours, though, makes the film not something to watch but to exist with, it's not meant to view but moreover to experience, as we live and experience a jungle unlike ones in a National Geographic special.
Co-conspirator Jonas Mekas remarked on the film and its effect as a modern art piece, as well as how Empire was influenced by thee minimalist composer La Monte Young:
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