http://www.eckerd.edu/sundance/2009/01/24/an-awful-break/ Fri, 24 May 2013 00:35:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.eckerd.edu/sundance/2009/01/24/an-awful-break/#comment-44 Nathan Andersen Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:23:27 +0000 http://www.eckerd.edu/sundance/?p=1730#comment-44 I didn't catch this, but the idea of capturing an ordinary scene at length or in slow motion is not new. Warhol's "Empire" is a continuous 12 hour image of the Empire State Building; his "Sleep" is something like 8 hours of Warhol's naked lover sleeping. A few years ago, there was a film here called something like "Pine Flats" that consisted of 8 ten minute sequences with an unchanging camera angle and not much happening. I didn’t catch this, but the idea of capturing an ordinary scene at length or in slow motion is not new. Warhol’s “Empire” is a continuous 12 hour image of the Empire State Building; his “Sleep” is something like 8 hours of Warhol’s naked lover sleeping. A few years ago, there was a film here called something like “Pine Flats” that consisted of 8 ten minute sequences with an unchanging camera angle and not much happening.

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