Warhol's 8-hour snoozer, but make it TikTok attention span.
24-hour surveillance film of the Empire State Building (an homage to Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas) but shot at 10-second intervals, and set to Furtwängler‘s version Ode to Joy.
Direction
Deliberately sabotages Warhol's endurance test with brutal efficiency.
Editing
10-second intervals: the ADHD generation's revenge on slow cinema.
Director
David Kramer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Warhol's original Empire (1964) was a middle finger to narrative cinema; Kramer's version is a middle finger to Warhol's middle finger, completing the cycle of art-world shade.
Furtwängler's 1951 Bayreuth Ode to Joy was his first post-Nazi conductorship—layering complicated German cultural weight onto an American icon via a Jewish filmmaker's satire.
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