i know this was suppose to be a live painting and all but to be honest this is really stupid, even from an artistic stand point is was a waste of time even to do i know Andy Warhol was a genius and all but some of his works are just ridiculous. like it scares me that ppl even wasted time on this. It was a waste of time to make it and to watch it. thats truley wasting 8 hours of your life
What could be more exciting than an 8-hour long stare at the Empire State Building? Whoever bought a ticket to this movie was probably expecting an epic of mythical proportions.
I get this movie, don't get me wrong, I just don't LIKE this movie. I mean, it's not the sort of film you're supposed to like, you're supposed to appreciate - the "art" in this case is the simple fact that such a film exists. The best way to show this film isn't to project it on a screen for eight hours, it's to say to your friend, "Dude, did you know that Andy Warhol once filmed the empire state building for eight hours?"
@Verendus0 got bless you for that. if i ever meet you in real life i will totally buy you a beer. No matter who you are You can be racist, mean, a jerk but that comment just made u the coolest person in my book
There is no point in actually watching the as a movie and commenting on it. It's a pointless, plotless shot of a building. You could press fast forward and get the gist of it. I think that it's meant to be viewed on a wall in the background, or a a nicely photographed time capsule. It's very much like a painting. I mean, you wouldn't stare at a painting for 4 hours, right?
I just came back from the MOMA screening--it was pretty cool the way it was done. A lot of art and culture bloggers were on the back row tweeting the entire film and telling us trivia and gossip as the film unfolded. I don't think it was how Warhol conceptualized it but I wonder what he would have thought about this 21st c. screening.
"As the viewers stare at the [...] screen, they may think of all the worthwhile things they should be doing instead of sitting there, bored out of their minds. (Warhol once claimed that his 'motionless' movies 'help audiences get more acquainted with themselves. When nothing happens, you have a chance to think about everything.') But if moviegoers can survive the first minutes [...] they adapt to the trancelike pace of the film [...]." ~From the book WARHOL, by David Bourdon
It's a good concept and it's not like he tried to sell tickets to see it as a blockbuster. But the point is he was testing the level of Zen in the audience. To see if they can do something without purpose, or over thinking. It's supposed to very easy for him to make, but almost impossible for you to watch. In a sense, he was trolling!
If you think this is great art, you are a poseur and complete fool. Warhol himself would be laughing at you. This was created as an endurance test, nothing more. Warhol wanted to see how long people could put up with staring at a still shot.
it is suppose to be a live painting. If you have a framed flat screen monitor, hang it on the wall; play this for 8 eight hours as is. It is like a painting. Warhol is ahead of his time. Also he wanted to remain static and unchanging, so if you decide to run out and have dinner, you can come back and it will still be the same; you will miss nothing.
Andy Warhol also would play with "the aesthetic of bordem." You watch the film, and since there really isn't much stimulus going on, you go into your head and then after a while your attention will loop back to the film.
there is none...if anything you're supposed to find something in this piece for yourself, just like the rest of his art and all the other artists like him
um its pretty simple...... the point is to watch the empire state building for 8 hours, noticing the small subtle changes over time. he wasnt trying to "piss off the film industry". Warhol didnt give half a crap about the "industry". its just an experimental film.
blurring the lines of media. he liked the idea that you could leave halfway though the film, come back an hour later, and the building would still be there, just like a painting.
Guys, Andy Warhol wasn't trying to make some kind of point about humanity, he wasn't trying to make a beautiful work of art... with Empire, he was trying to piss off the film industry. He knew the film was dull and unwatchable, and that's why he made it. Everyone in here going "Oh this is so beautiful and deep" is a total prig.
I guess the trick with Warhol was to make something and call it art, and it simply becomes art because of the way it's presented. People extract artistic significance from the simplistic. The stress was on the fact that he did it, not the product. Kind of a schmuck if you ask me.
I don't agree. Andy had a unique observational appreciation of everyday life, as do many introverted, voyeuristic types. His idea of "a beautiful work of art" was just different to yours. He was fascinated by what most people consider "boring" but to those who share his view much of it is anything but (with obvious exceptions like 'Empire''). And criticising those who appreciate something just because you don't is every bit as asinine and conformist as buying into it mindlessly.
IMHO, this movie is interesting,because it lacks meaning and sense, those exremely annoying things that seem to be present everywhere, from publicity to high art. Also , the Empire State Building has star presence and does'nt overact, something that Warhol abhorred. i hope that some nitwit does'nt put music to this, it would be sacrilege!
It's simple...... Do you stare at a painting and wonder when somethings gonna' happen? EMPIRE is just a painting using film instead of paint. You project it on the wall and just forget about it. Maybe you give it a glance or two as you pass by it on the way to the kitchen but you do not stare non-stop wondering when this "painting" might do something. It's a painting.
Why does this movie exist? I mean, 6 minutes is pushing it, but 8 hours? I guess I just don't get it. If this is fine art than I'd rather watch Star Wars.
what you should see is not the building, but the act of filming the building. he's filming time. it's modernism. you'll get a lot more reality from that than from star wars. well, kind of. there's myth in star wars.
Haha I did that this one time. I was extrememly high so I took a shower and I stared at my bottles of shampoo and conditioner for almost an hour. I must say that I could never do that sober. That being said, Empire is more enjoyable with a little buzz. (I probably pissed off some 'sheep' with that statement)
Warhol would have loved for everyone to do that, I think you GET him. Think about how a simple shampoo bottle loses even its simple meaning and existence when you stare at it for 8 hours.
I had the privilege of viewing the whole thing at a theater in London last year. It has so much poignancy that is lost when one refuses to give the whole thing a chance. It is like a Beethoven symphony, shallow when listened in portions, but when one sees the big picture, it is both touching and moving.
I´d like to turn you on butthead, but I´m not even dead, you´re so ugly yourself that they won´t even let you participate in secret meetings of the assossiation of the blind. Talking about freaks like Aleister Crowley without even understanding what this piece of insane no-ledge wanted to achieve you assmonkey. If I were so homosexual like you and Mr. Dick would I spend my freetime in gay clubs rather than on youtube. Stop propagating shitty films and just have a carcrash Mr. Paul McAsshole.
Come on piece of crap you should first try to talk like a normal person before even starting to read. I still don´t get how such an ugly worthless blind stalking retard wordpad correction freak gets fed.
I´d love to smack you down all of the 8 hours of this movie, to se if you can even get an idea of of something...
Your absolutely right scumbag, the official version of Andy´s death differs a lot from what really happened. In 1987 they were faking his death so that he could make the Crash Test Dummies without public intervention, though at that time no fucker was anymore interested in this dilletant´s work. I´m astonished that you really read a book Spawnass, since I was concluding that you could neither read nor write.
I´m so delighted you stopped by...Don´t trust wikipedia..y read in a book that ha and the crash test dummies were at a parking lot rehearsing for the video and Andy forgot to get out of the vehicle, that was about to crash..he filmed his own death also, like bruce lee´s death in brawl at the bronx. maybe it has to do with the corporal transmutation method, paul mcartney used in 1966..maybe they combined their spiritual energy into, alister crowley´s new body....Hanna Montana
Sorry to interrupt. Andy Warhol did not die in a car crash. Andy died in a hospital from complications from a gallbladder surgery. He also died in 1987.
Well, your lack of knowledge is certainly just one of your many errors, but Andy "The Warhol" Dick wasn´t even alive when 9/11 happened, he died in 1989 in a car accident, just like Paul McCartney a couple of years earlier. At that time Andy had he been working on a music video with the Crash Test Dummies, and thought it was a test when he got in the car. You should start reading books you worthless fucker.
@gregorsamsar Paul Mcartney is still very much alive my friend! and for your information Andy Warhol died in hospital when having an operation went wrong. Seriously i wouldnt try comment on others knowledge when urs is so poor!
Still up to that! it´s just that Mr. Dick as you call him filmed the wrong bouldins at th wrong time..maybe that way 9/11 woud have benen exelently documented...that wuold have been a real piece of art. and he still could have used the same title.
I don´t understand how you can talk like this about Empire, Mr. Dick put all of his talentless effort into making this surreal nonsense, and you just disregard it. It´s like 8 hours of excellent trash and should be viewed as such. Please show some respect dumbfucker, just as I do. Now go back to school and learn how to write.
Ok.. ok...yer right...anger isn´t the way at all. any way i´ll make my point..it´s hard to see the light that you ignore to see. I didn´t find any thing in the hole 8 hour. not a thing but nonsense sadism of atention. once i was blind, now i knwo i´ll nver bw able to watch it again. it´s no intended to be watched, but to be displayed as a picture any way....no beauty in that piece of junk simbol.. now i think hes not so far from Andy Dick being both so senseless
My stepfather is dead you empty bottle, he was killed by the BND, at least that´s what my mother told me shortly before she comitted suicide. Please stop offending me junkbag, and better reunite with the other mental patients for another 8-hours show of Dick´s Empire. You should consider that art is lyrically the expression of crying birds in a witer night while frozen squirrels meet in the moonlight. If Warhol can´t do this expression justice, then he doesn´t deserve to be an artist.
Emptyness comes with a p! You stupit mother fuker. you look preety illegal for a german foe.Ii hope the (BND) gets you for terrorism. and you get smaked by your step father for being such an asshole, he´ll do us all just a big favor.
I´m glad you finally learned how to write piece you motherless loser; when I examine your comment that could have been written by a 3-year old girl on crack do I find the same emtyness Mr. Dick is famous for, but nobody will ever claim you an artist because they don´t even understand what you´re trying to say fuckface. As I said before don´t I stalk anybody, but I will come to your house and beat you up if you don´t learn to write properly you failed artistic cow.
You wouldn´t feel art even if a peck off scholes was shoved up your blind fucked eyes. glow stisk bastard. Anyway to undestand art you must be able to even open up to stare and examine, not just a glance a good look. take a chance and learn something stalking piece of shit.
So I´m a pEIce of junk you illeterate homeless bastard. Let me tell you something, I didn´t ever stalk Paris Hilton, she sent me hidden messages to let me know that she is in love with me, but I wasn´t interested at all. Andy Warlord is the master of disaster in the planes of the snakes where the donkeys meet while some critics are drinking orange juice you modern masterfucker. If you can´t even find an adecuate definition of art should you go back watching cartoons you dumb backpacker.
You must be for sure the freaky mther fuker on your favorites video, stalking poor Ms. Paris. Sure yo can make the computer write for you, but sitll can´t figure how to talk properly.. you peice of junk.
Andy Warhole is the master of the planes where the most virtuous geniuses of the modern era have agreed on this affecto to such delightfull artness institution
Please note the grammatical errors in the meaningless offence you wrote me Dick-head! A person who doen´t even mange the English mother language shouldn´t try to talk about arts at all. I´m certain you have never been to a secundary school, just like Warhol himself, and now one idiot is defending another one. Excuse me, but I have to laugh out loud.
You´re a complete ass hole. it´s not Dick it´s Warhol! Dick is a sensless tipe of performer hta couldn´t get a serious laugh out of a terminal patien. PLease note the diference.
wow, this seems to be part of the 2-hour-long trailer for Andy Dick´s unachieved masterpiece "Empire", one can notice the unnecessary changes which softly and tenderly appear in the blink of an eye, I´m always impressed how art can transform all meaning into something really empty. We need more films like this!
When I think of his films like these, I think of them as moving portraits more than films. Something to hang on the wall, but the beautiful thing about them is their little changes.
If the human race is destroyed and thousands of years later aliens find our planet, I hope they find Andy's films. I think they would get a better idea of who we are from some of these films that from, say, The Girl Next Door.
People that don't like this movie should go and watch bad boys 2. It's pretty clear they don't have the sublime intellect required to understand this art.
The post-modernist have been raising this question for 60 years, could they maybe move on the whole concept of "it is art because i say it is" and create something that does not force unfounded aesthetic interpretation?
If someone creates something and calls it art, it is, no matter how crappy anyone thinks it is, that just makes it crappy art (to that person). I don't think how good/bad something is should factor into whether it's art or not, because it boils down to opinion, and you can't regulate opinions or set them in stone.
All of you people calling this "art" do realize Andy made this as a joke/experiment to see how long he could keep people in a theater staring at a single image for ridiculous periods of time right?
*Grin* The people who call this art are too pretentious to admit they've fallen for the joke and must perpetuate the idea that there was something more to it. That's what made Andy brilliant!
The question is whether or not you can call this a "motion picture". The camera stands still for 6 hrs and shows the same object, but it's still a film.
It's like Duchamps "Fountain" that raised a lot of questions about what art is, this movie does that again from another angle.
uh no. he said that the Empire State Building was the biggst star of NYC and most of Warhol's films were the essence of humanizing and then dehumanizing the subject. Staring at the Empire State Building that long showed how iconic it was, how familiar it became, then how forgettable it ultimately is.
That was Andy's justification for keeping people in a theater for 8 hours staring at a single image. He didn't consider this his art, but rather he considered the manipulation of the people his art.
Why are all the flamers targeting this video exactly? And for all you people out there who hate this movie, this isn't meant for enjoyment, this is meant to be an expressionary tool. Warhol was trying to change things, and in a sense, Think Different.
This is art. If you say its not, its "shit" then you obviously don't understand art or Andy Warhol for that matter. Andy Warhol took everyday things and made them into art. He changed the way people looked at the world and that is art. Art doesnt need a meaning, art doesnt need a point, art doesnt need to be attractive or pursposeful or anything like that. Art is art. Nothing more, nothing less and anyone who says this is shit doesnt understand that.
Art is art? What a stupid way into putting that into perspective. Let me just write a piece of line on a paper and call that art. You interpretation of art is about as mindless as a cow. A cow just self-consumes and gets fats to the point where it leads to the slaughter house...
for those who get pissed when others call this "shit," and say things such as "just because you dont understand this doesnt mean its shit! just becuase you dont understand his artistic genius!!"
i have a serious mandar...
please explain your artistic interpretation of this film.
im not being a smart ass, im serious. because i dont get it. maybe im dumb...
or maybe he had an immensely complicated circulatory system.
i dunno but it is still garnering such attention and strong feelings. that i'd say is successful, no matter what is is supposed to 'mean' . warhol would be pleased .
o_O Artistic genius?! I pity folk that can say that his artistic experiment of shoving up a 'living portrait' for 8 hours just to see how long people would stare at it, is art. It's just the height of pretentiousness really. If you want to go waste your life watching hours and hours of it just so you can feel superior to all us common people who 'just don't understand art' then fine by me. Give me Kahlo, Picasso or Freud anyday - this is a pile of pish.
lighten up buddy art is art it doesn't have to be understood by everyone, it's there for interpretation. if ur interpretation id that it's pretentious then good on you
"god forbid's" someone makes something so mindless and call it "art". Let me publish a canvas of something awful....guess what? there's nothing on it, they painting image is inside you :). Fuck that shit. Call it want you want, shit is shit.
why don't you keep your negative comments to yourself
some people can see the meaning behind this movie, and if you can't then that's your loss but don't call it shit just because you don't get Warhol's artistic genius
and if the 60's was such a bad decade for music, why is it that some of the biggest bands in history came out of it?
if you can't take meaning from this movie then that's your loss but don't go mouthing off and call it shit just because you don't get Warhol's artistic genius
sometimes you have to look deeper than the surface of art to really appreciate it
and if the 60s was such a bad decade for music why is it that some of the biggest bands in history came out of it?
just because you don't like something doesn't mean that it's shit
My art teacher said that this film was like a painting that was constantly changing. I think back then it was cool but now because our attention spans are so fucking short we really can't appreciate it the way people back then did.
This is a great film to SLEEP to...it's brilliant in many ways, and can be interpited in many ways too...granted, I think it's the fact of watching time as time passes us is the true concept...
I have only seen 1 hour of it (Italian Video Release), but the execution is great!
Huddiethegreat: You have GOT to be joking. You would need to have absolutely NO LIFE at all (and probably a whole lot of really good drugs) in order to sit through this entire thing and actually "watch" it. What is there to watch? Why don't you stare at a picture on the wall for 8 hours? It'll probably be more exciting.
The full version is eight hours. This movie came out during the heavy era of acid. The sixties was the worst decade ever. This advent-grade movie is fucking horrible and orginal copy should be thrown in the fucking garbage. For people who think this is deep...wait (tokes and smokes) you know what? This movie is awesome (eye's are red). Pathetic!
Shit like this annoys me.
TheMikeyReilly 2 days ago
I think this is a bit too avant-garde for my taste. Seems like all he did was make it to see how long people could actually watch this.
Paperbagman555 5 days ago
Still more entertaining then Transformers 3
DecapitatedDoctor 6 days ago
3:39 BEST PART!
skrikon 1 week ago
Technically, Andy Warhol was the world's first troll.
His movies may have been utterly stupid, boring and impossible to watch, but he was the first to do so.
His movies tested the audiences patience. Can you think of anyone else who can do that and actually pull it off without being an actual troll?
I can't.
I don't care what people say. This guy was a genius
preceeding 1 week ago
You kind of have to admire the fact that he actually did this for eight hours.
christopherraven 1 month ago
What a load of utter shite.
dunstanofgreen 2 months ago
i know this was suppose to be a live painting and all but to be honest this is really stupid, even from an artistic stand point is was a waste of time even to do i know Andy Warhol was a genius and all but some of his works are just ridiculous. like it scares me that ppl even wasted time on this. It was a waste of time to make it and to watch it. thats truley wasting 8 hours of your life
Shatwb2 2 months ago
a classic case of drugs making shit seem better than it is... thats the only lesson i learn from this...
MegaDragonFart 2 months ago
this is so deep
iceguy0077 3 months ago
why would anyone want to watch an extra 8 hours of the same exact picture??hahahaa
MrOutlaw143 3 months ago
@MrOutlaw143 Bragging rights.
ShiningNow 3 months ago
Upload the whole movie !
bondomaniak 4 months ago
What could be more exciting than an 8-hour long stare at the Empire State Building? Whoever bought a ticket to this movie was probably expecting an epic of mythical proportions.
MondoBeno 5 months ago
where can i watch the whole thing online?
tqsuited 5 months ago
LAME!!!
chrismr1975 5 months ago
@chrismr1975 Get out
Shikamarukan 4 months ago 2
I get this movie, don't get me wrong, I just don't LIKE this movie. I mean, it's not the sort of film you're supposed to like, you're supposed to appreciate - the "art" in this case is the simple fact that such a film exists. The best way to show this film isn't to project it on a screen for eight hours, it's to say to your friend, "Dude, did you know that Andy Warhol once filmed the empire state building for eight hours?"
Verendus0 7 months ago 2
@Verendus0 got bless you for that. if i ever meet you in real life i will totally buy you a beer. No matter who you are You can be racist, mean, a jerk but that comment just made u the coolest person in my book
Shatwb2 2 months ago
Ahora voy a acariciarme la barbilla y utilizaré un montón de polisibalos al azar para describir esto ¿Cuanto dinero me darán por ello?
NLSJ 7 months ago
pretty cool film. the thing is, if you watched this movie, you could go get refreshments and the same footage woul still be showing.
GENIUS!
mravantgarde123 7 months ago 3
Ugh.
thesir27 9 months ago
There is no point in actually watching the as a movie and commenting on it. It's a pointless, plotless shot of a building. You could press fast forward and get the gist of it. I think that it's meant to be viewed on a wall in the background, or a a nicely photographed time capsule. It's very much like a painting. I mean, you wouldn't stare at a painting for 4 hours, right?
TheNEWfilmfanatic99 9 months ago
Как говорят у нас в России... Where is the salt !??!?!!?!?
Poedatelpechenek 10 months ago
you know those digital frames. would be cool to have this filming on one in the livingroom or something.
foggel88 10 months ago
this movie begs for a remake
abmaximus 10 months ago
@abmaximus Yeah. Just like the Mona Lisa is begging for a remake too.
JET997u 10 months ago
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@abmaximus i take up that challenge..
FattieAcidProduction 9 months ago
Warhol made this to laught about some retards who think that they are clever
Iker666beast 11 months ago
is it a bird...is it a plane...its a plane...
AaronHudsonCook 11 months ago
Quite shitty piece of art.
Pulkkalainen 11 months ago
I just came back from the MOMA screening--it was pretty cool the way it was done. A lot of art and culture bloggers were on the back row tweeting the entire film and telling us trivia and gossip as the film unfolded. I don't think it was how Warhol conceptualized it but I wonder what he would have thought about this 21st c. screening.
davidezell 11 months ago
I got EmpireRoll'D.
BlackMagnumFilms 1 year ago 4
I want full film 8 hours :-)! :D
Terentilka0 1 year ago
I see Waldo!
ICryOverSpiltMilk 1 year ago 2
only shit
Polloooooooooooo 1 year ago
Andy Warhol, history's greatest fraud.
teak43 1 year ago
I liked it but found the plot's twists and turns a bit hard to follow.
yangyin09u 1 year ago 10
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BastardClaus 1 year ago
so crap rofl what was he fucking thinking doin the 8 hour movie rofl
TheLilgangster3 1 year ago
So Exciting! Can't wait to see the directors cut!
FQBeast 1 year ago 5
"As the viewers stare at the [...] screen, they may think of all the worthwhile things they should be doing instead of sitting there, bored out of their minds. (Warhol once claimed that his 'motionless' movies 'help audiences get more acquainted with themselves. When nothing happens, you have a chance to think about everything.') But if moviegoers can survive the first minutes [...] they adapt to the trancelike pace of the film [...]." ~From the book WARHOL, by David Bourdon
StoryNClark 1 year ago 2
i swear i can see a face in the film at 2:41
Ziplock74 1 year ago
@Ziplock74 I didnt see a face. Where is it?
23LWillie 1 year ago
It's a good concept and it's not like he tried to sell tickets to see it as a blockbuster. But the point is he was testing the level of Zen in the audience. To see if they can do something without purpose, or over thinking. It's supposed to very easy for him to make, but almost impossible for you to watch. In a sense, he was trolling!
Gettinghitonattheban 1 year ago 5
wtf joh
BezemHater2 1 year ago
@BezemHater2 Dit is nou kunst :)
JDekostar 1 year ago
wa voor shit is dit joh
BezemHater2 1 year ago
Just to clear up all of the dumbshittery, Warhol died from a heart attack while getting his gall bladder taken out.
Ballooonatic 1 year ago
485 minutes of shit shot.
isaiaselcaco 1 year ago
If you think this is great art, you are a poseur and complete fool. Warhol himself would be laughing at you. This was created as an endurance test, nothing more. Warhol wanted to see how long people could put up with staring at a still shot.
therealalexb 1 year ago
I thought he was going with a minimalist's approach to film making?
rhyatt24 1 year ago
@rhyatt24 well that he certainly did. the only way he could have been more "minimalist" would be if he didn't use film...
SethsStudio 1 year ago
5:34 holy shit!!! I'm i the only one who saw that?
slashmorello911 1 year ago
It's weird but i kinda get it
Kylc599 1 year ago
what its supposed to be is a piece of shit. There is no reason to see this, its crap!
Beautiful work of art my ass!
Gi1BrO 1 year ago
they showed this the other day here in NYC, but with live music.
shadex2 1 year ago 2
Neither thought provoking or beautiful. I fail to see why it is called art.
SpcZil 1 year ago
That's because you're a moron.
sjobi1 1 year ago
what's the matter of this movie?
subzero92MK 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
piece of crap movie. A perfect example of giving a fancy schtick to a movie and then people like it.
TinyDemonProductions 2 years ago
1:24 omg! did u see that?!
kelf89 2 years ago
@kelf89 I know, it's by far the best bit. Amazing.
MrSlaphead61 2 years ago
it is suppose to be a live painting. If you have a framed flat screen monitor, hang it on the wall; play this for 8 eight hours as is. It is like a painting. Warhol is ahead of his time. Also he wanted to remain static and unchanging, so if you decide to run out and have dinner, you can come back and it will still be the same; you will miss nothing.
rcjteng 2 years ago 11
@rcjteng
Andy Warhol also would play with "the aesthetic of bordem." You watch the film, and since there really isn't much stimulus going on, you go into your head and then after a while your attention will loop back to the film.
bluebettle 1 month ago
im takin a art history class and i was assigned to watch this short clip of the movie!!
someone please tell me the point of this movie??
MentalityOfGreatness 2 years ago
there is none...if anything you're supposed to find something in this piece for yourself, just like the rest of his art and all the other artists like him
rudeboyjohn 2 years ago
what is the point of art then?
t7g6s8 2 years ago
um its pretty simple...... the point is to watch the empire state building for 8 hours, noticing the small subtle changes over time. he wasnt trying to "piss off the film industry". Warhol didnt give half a crap about the "industry". its just an experimental film.
yonskii 2 years ago
it was his pleasure lol, he didn't ask anyone else to watch it, otherwise they would've released a DVD of it :P
GenesisKnights 2 years ago 3
he was making a statement. "anti-film"
johnhockaday 2 years ago 4
blurring the lines of media. he liked the idea that you could leave halfway though the film, come back an hour later, and the building would still be there, just like a painting.
ntschlundt 2 years ago 4
Guys, Andy Warhol wasn't trying to make some kind of point about humanity, he wasn't trying to make a beautiful work of art... with Empire, he was trying to piss off the film industry. He knew the film was dull and unwatchable, and that's why he made it. Everyone in here going "Oh this is so beautiful and deep" is a total prig.
RVProductions 2 years ago 5
You could not be more wright, and I've been studiyng Warhol since for ever, and, I totally agree with you. :)
ArtieWarhol 2 years ago
I guess the trick with Warhol was to make something and call it art, and it simply becomes art because of the way it's presented. People extract artistic significance from the simplistic. The stress was on the fact that he did it, not the product. Kind of a schmuck if you ask me.
Rachman1337 2 years ago
I don't agree. Andy had a unique observational appreciation of everyday life, as do many introverted, voyeuristic types. His idea of "a beautiful work of art" was just different to yours. He was fascinated by what most people consider "boring" but to those who share his view much of it is anything but (with obvious exceptions like 'Empire''). And criticising those who appreciate something just because you don't is every bit as asinine and conformist as buying into it mindlessly.
xXPinkGoddessXx 2 years ago 2
Art includes experimentation inevitably...This is not art but art experimentation!
bubamara88 2 years ago
this is so your mind thoughts wander staring at a object maybe
anonwebserfer 2 years ago
Its beautiful.
Frostshock09 2 years ago
Someone needs to set this to Benny Hills music.
DrBreakfastMachine 2 years ago 2
andy is an artist, not a director. You have to look this film as form of art and not as a movie (film). But in my opinion it isn't something special.
gadduino 2 years ago
IMHO, this movie is interesting,because it lacks meaning and sense, those exremely annoying things that seem to be present everywhere, from publicity to high art. Also , the Empire State Building has star presence and does'nt overact, something that Warhol abhorred. i hope that some nitwit does'nt put music to this, it would be sacrilege!
loiraso 2 years ago
It's simple...... Do you stare at a painting and wonder when somethings gonna' happen? EMPIRE is just a painting using film instead of paint. You project it on the wall and just forget about it. Maybe you give it a glance or two as you pass by it on the way to the kitchen but you do not stare non-stop wondering when this "painting" might do something. It's a painting.
GillMann 2 years ago 2
Why does this movie exist? I mean, 6 minutes is pushing it, but 8 hours? I guess I just don't get it. If this is fine art than I'd rather watch Star Wars.
Taraalcar 2 years ago
what you should see is not the building, but the act of filming the building. he's filming time. it's modernism. you'll get a lot more reality from that than from star wars. well, kind of. there's myth in star wars.
sergiost 2 years ago
All a master piece. Quiet!.
Hah.
Watch my videos. =).
mearte 2 years ago
i wonder if people actually stayed for the entire showing if it was ever shown...
elsoda 2 years ago 2
Should've won Best Picture of the Year....I'm not joking here!
What makes this movie great is the fact that your mind wanders into strange thoughts as you view it.
Simply put: it's a thought provoking movie.
OM863GZ 2 years ago 5
to om863gz-you could get the same effect staring at a shampoo bottle for 8 hours.
alexander92648 2 years ago
Haha I did that this one time. I was extrememly high so I took a shower and I stared at my bottles of shampoo and conditioner for almost an hour. I must say that I could never do that sober. That being said, Empire is more enjoyable with a little buzz. (I probably pissed off some 'sheep' with that statement)
OM863GZ 2 years ago 3
Warhol would have loved for everyone to do that, I think you GET him. Think about how a simple shampoo bottle loses even its simple meaning and existence when you stare at it for 8 hours.
chandru1103 2 years ago
was this filmed in a thunderstorm?
AnnoyingLittleShit 2 years ago
I had the privilege of viewing the whole thing at a theater in London last year. It has so much poignancy that is lost when one refuses to give the whole thing a chance. It is like a Beethoven symphony, shallow when listened in portions, but when one sees the big picture, it is both touching and moving.
Ricardo72 2 years ago 3
I´d like to turn you on butthead, but I´m not even dead, you´re so ugly yourself that they won´t even let you participate in secret meetings of the assossiation of the blind. Talking about freaks like Aleister Crowley without even understanding what this piece of insane no-ledge wanted to achieve you assmonkey. If I were so homosexual like you and Mr. Dick would I spend my freetime in gay clubs rather than on youtube. Stop propagating shitty films and just have a carcrash Mr. Paul McAsshole.
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 8
This is a parody of a typical internet discussion, I hope.
tjodolF2 2 years ago 4
Come on piece of crap you should first try to talk like a normal person before even starting to read. I still don´t get how such an ugly worthless blind stalking retard wordpad correction freak gets fed.
I´d love to smack you down all of the 8 hours of this movie, to se if you can even get an idea of of something...
Turn me on dead man!
Spawnwrath 2 years ago 8
Your absolutely right scumbag, the official version of Andy´s death differs a lot from what really happened. In 1987 they were faking his death so that he could make the Crash Test Dummies without public intervention, though at that time no fucker was anymore interested in this dilletant´s work. I´m astonished that you really read a book Spawnass, since I was concluding that you could neither read nor write.
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 9
I´m so delighted you stopped by...Don´t trust wikipedia..y read in a book that ha and the crash test dummies were at a parking lot rehearsing for the video and Andy forgot to get out of the vehicle, that was about to crash..he filmed his own death also, like bruce lee´s death in brawl at the bronx. maybe it has to do with the corporal transmutation method, paul mcartney used in 1966..maybe they combined their spiritual energy into, alister crowley´s new body....Hanna Montana
Spawnwrath 2 years ago 8
Sorry to interrupt. Andy Warhol did not die in a car crash. Andy died in a hospital from complications from a gallbladder surgery. He also died in 1987.
knowledgeispower101 2 years ago 4
Well, your lack of knowledge is certainly just one of your many errors, but Andy "The Warhol" Dick wasn´t even alive when 9/11 happened, he died in 1989 in a car accident, just like Paul McCartney a couple of years earlier. At that time Andy had he been working on a music video with the Crash Test Dummies, and thought it was a test when he got in the car. You should start reading books you worthless fucker.
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 15
@gregorsamsar car accident ? talk about lack of knowledge.
GKF042 1 year ago
@gregorsamsar I'm pretty sure that Paul McCartney is still alive.
foxyman898 1 year ago
@gregorsamsar Paul Mcartney is still very much alive my friend! and for your information Andy Warhol died in hospital when having an operation went wrong. Seriously i wouldnt try comment on others knowledge when urs is so poor!
9westie 1 year ago
@gregorsamsar Paul McCartney's not dead you blithering idiot!
23MIKE95 1 year ago
@gregorsamsar Andy Warhol died at a heart attack after an operation....
sulleable 1 year ago 2
@gregorsamsar just like paul mccartney a few years earlier?? i saw him live 4 years ago, or was that an imposter?
oljackson99 8 months ago
Still up to that! it´s just that Mr. Dick as you call him filmed the wrong bouldins at th wrong time..maybe that way 9/11 woud have benen exelently documented...that wuold have been a real piece of art. and he still could have used the same title.
Spawnwrath 2 years ago 9
@Spawnwrath this was in 1964. It wasn't even finished then.
Mennismervice 1 year ago
@Mennismervice What was finished then?
JET997u 10 months ago
@JET997u the 2 towers wheren't even finished until the 70s is what i meant...
Mennismervice 10 months ago
I don´t understand how you can talk like this about Empire, Mr. Dick put all of his talentless effort into making this surreal nonsense, and you just disregard it. It´s like 8 hours of excellent trash and should be viewed as such. Please show some respect dumbfucker, just as I do. Now go back to school and learn how to write.
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 11
Ok.. ok...yer right...anger isn´t the way at all. any way i´ll make my point..it´s hard to see the light that you ignore to see. I didn´t find any thing in the hole 8 hour. not a thing but nonsense sadism of atention. once i was blind, now i knwo i´ll nver bw able to watch it again. it´s no intended to be watched, but to be displayed as a picture any way....no beauty in that piece of junk simbol.. now i think hes not so far from Andy Dick being both so senseless
Spawnwrath 2 years ago 8
My stepfather is dead you empty bottle, he was killed by the BND, at least that´s what my mother told me shortly before she comitted suicide. Please stop offending me junkbag, and better reunite with the other mental patients for another 8-hours show of Dick´s Empire. You should consider that art is lyrically the expression of crying birds in a witer night while frozen squirrels meet in the moonlight. If Warhol can´t do this expression justice, then he doesn´t deserve to be an artist.
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 10
Emptyness comes with a p! You stupit mother fuker. you look preety illegal for a german foe.Ii hope the (BND) gets you for terrorism. and you get smaked by your step father for being such an asshole, he´ll do us all just a big favor.
Spawnwrath 2 years ago 5
I´m glad you finally learned how to write piece you motherless loser; when I examine your comment that could have been written by a 3-year old girl on crack do I find the same emtyness Mr. Dick is famous for, but nobody will ever claim you an artist because they don´t even understand what you´re trying to say fuckface. As I said before don´t I stalk anybody, but I will come to your house and beat you up if you don´t learn to write properly you failed artistic cow.
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 3
You wouldn´t feel art even if a peck off scholes was shoved up your blind fucked eyes. glow stisk bastard. Anyway to undestand art you must be able to even open up to stare and examine, not just a glance a good look. take a chance and learn something stalking piece of shit.
I hope you choke on that microfone.
Spawnwrath 2 years ago 4
So I´m a pEIce of junk you illeterate homeless bastard. Let me tell you something, I didn´t ever stalk Paris Hilton, she sent me hidden messages to let me know that she is in love with me, but I wasn´t interested at all. Andy Warlord is the master of disaster in the planes of the snakes where the donkeys meet while some critics are drinking orange juice you modern masterfucker. If you can´t even find an adecuate definition of art should you go back watching cartoons you dumb backpacker.
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 4
You must be for sure the freaky mther fuker on your favorites video, stalking poor Ms. Paris. Sure yo can make the computer write for you, but sitll can´t figure how to talk properly.. you peice of junk.
Andy Warhole is the master of the planes where the most virtuous geniuses of the modern era have agreed on this affecto to such delightfull artness institution
Spawnwrath 2 years ago 3
Please note the grammatical errors in the meaningless offence you wrote me Dick-head! A person who doen´t even mange the English mother language shouldn´t try to talk about arts at all. I´m certain you have never been to a secundary school, just like Warhol himself, and now one idiot is defending another one. Excuse me, but I have to laugh out loud.
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 4
You´re a complete ass hole. it´s not Dick it´s Warhol! Dick is a sensless tipe of performer hta couldn´t get a serious laugh out of a terminal patien. PLease note the diference.
Spawnwrath 2 years ago 2
wow, this seems to be part of the 2-hour-long trailer for Andy Dick´s unachieved masterpiece "Empire", one can notice the unnecessary changes which softly and tenderly appear in the blink of an eye, I´m always impressed how art can transform all meaning into something really empty. We need more films like this!
gregorsamsar 2 years ago 3
i can appreciate the art and all but you've got to be some kind of masochist to subject yourself to the full 8 hours.
jpg50 2 years ago 3
When I think of his films like these, I think of them as moving portraits more than films. Something to hang on the wall, but the beautiful thing about them is their little changes.
Think a simpler Harry Potter portrait ;).
Wednesdayy7 2 years ago
Where's the remaining 479 minutes of the film? Aren't you gonna upload it?
;-)
centuryrox 2 years ago
There is an idea that the image at first will be exciting, and in time it's just an image. But after time, it becomes relevant again.
brianrconlon 2 years ago
this isnt art. just because andy warhol made it doesnt mean its good.
i guess its original, but thats about it
woody171717 2 years ago 5
art has no right or wrong
it's made to be enjoyed
xwretched 2 years ago
Prehistory of webcam.
amperial2008 2 years ago 2
According to Warhol, the point of this film—perhaps his most famous and influential cinematic work—is to "see time go by."
It's art. You don't get to sign it off as some joke. get over yourselves.
ColdDadaNothing 2 years ago
Sounds like a joke to me.
videonerd250 2 years ago
Is he in an Elevator going up and down just a few flights?
CRONUSXV 2 years ago
As Gautier said, l'art pour l'art. I don't think I would watch the whole film, but I do appreciate Andy for making it
dntoupin 2 years ago
If the human race is destroyed and thousands of years later aliens find our planet, I hope they find Andy's films. I think they would get a better idea of who we are from some of these films that from, say, The Girl Next Door.
dntoupin 2 years ago
You are right.
TercerImpacto 2 years ago
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dntoupin 2 years ago
can u upload the whole thing?
tqsuited 2 years ago
The movie is like 9 hours long I doubt hed be able to.
davefan12 2 years ago
nah i was joking lol
tqsuited 2 years ago
It's supposed to be an anti-film. Yes Andy expected you to watch it, and he expected you to hate it. It's a continuation of his concept from "sleep".
For me, Art is anything that arouses emotion and feeling, this certainly does that if you watch all fucken 8 hours of it.
mrsNICKjonas327 2 years ago
for the imbeciles that think this is art
IT WAS A FUCKING EXPERIMENT to see how long idiots like yourselves would stare at a picture and then appreciate it as art
you pretentious cocksuckers
mrblinkk 2 years ago
People that don't like this movie should go and watch bad boys 2. It's pretty clear they don't have the sublime intellect required to understand this art.
Ricardo72 2 years ago
You know what this movie needs?
Yakity Sax.
dcbandnerd 2 years ago
The post-modernist have been raising this question for 60 years, could they maybe move on the whole concept of "it is art because i say it is" and create something that does not force unfounded aesthetic interpretation?
Larten456 3 years ago
If someone creates something and calls it art, it is, no matter how crappy anyone thinks it is, that just makes it crappy art (to that person). I don't think how good/bad something is should factor into whether it's art or not, because it boils down to opinion, and you can't regulate opinions or set them in stone.
BlueOceanBelow 3 years ago
this shit is great cause it questions what really is art. most unwatchable film of all time?
VacantMinds 3 years ago
All of you people calling this "art" do realize Andy made this as a joke/experiment to see how long he could keep people in a theater staring at a single image for ridiculous periods of time right?
TheSilentFool 3 years ago
*Grin* The people who call this art are too pretentious to admit they've fallen for the joke and must perpetuate the idea that there was something more to it. That's what made Andy brilliant!
MelodyOfVision 3 years ago
That's what makes it art.
auronuk 3 years ago
The question is whether or not you can call this a "motion picture". The camera stands still for 6 hrs and shows the same object, but it's still a film.
It's like Duchamps "Fountain" that raised a lot of questions about what art is, this movie does that again from another angle.
letsgocamping 3 years ago
uh no. he said that the Empire State Building was the biggst star of NYC and most of Warhol's films were the essence of humanizing and then dehumanizing the subject. Staring at the Empire State Building that long showed how iconic it was, how familiar it became, then how forgettable it ultimately is.
HoneyGotMeHooked 2 years ago
That was Andy's justification for keeping people in a theater for 8 hours staring at a single image. He didn't consider this his art, but rather he considered the manipulation of the people his art.
TheSilentFool 2 years ago
lol you know what, that's true. ha :-P
HoneyGotMeHooked 2 years ago
Why are all the flamers targeting this video exactly? And for all you people out there who hate this movie, this isn't meant for enjoyment, this is meant to be an expressionary tool. Warhol was trying to change things, and in a sense, Think Different.
mudkipNDS 3 years ago
This is art. If you say its not, its "shit" then you obviously don't understand art or Andy Warhol for that matter. Andy Warhol took everyday things and made them into art. He changed the way people looked at the world and that is art. Art doesnt need a meaning, art doesnt need a point, art doesnt need to be attractive or pursposeful or anything like that. Art is art. Nothing more, nothing less and anyone who says this is shit doesnt understand that.
DoctorJekyll09 3 years ago
then based on ur thoughts art is a waste of life
and this is shit
Avoptica 3 years ago
Art is art? What a stupid way into putting that into perspective. Let me just write a piece of line on a paper and call that art. You interpretation of art is about as mindless as a cow. A cow just self-consumes and gets fats to the point where it leads to the slaughter house...
Ravenmist66 2 years ago
for those who get pissed when others call this "shit," and say things such as "just because you dont understand this doesnt mean its shit! just becuase you dont understand his artistic genius!!"
i have a serious mandar...
please explain your artistic interpretation of this film.
im not being a smart ass, im serious. because i dont get it. maybe im dumb...
or maybe he had an immensely complicated circulatory system.
or maybe both!
heartyhoopz1184 3 years ago
i dunno but it is still garnering such attention and strong feelings. that i'd say is successful, no matter what is is supposed to 'mean' . warhol would be pleased .
yomichee 3 years ago
Warhol was always a self-absorbed, pretentious git. At least with Empire, he knew he was taking the piss....
blackgraper 3 years ago
o_O Artistic genius?! I pity folk that can say that his artistic experiment of shoving up a 'living portrait' for 8 hours just to see how long people would stare at it, is art. It's just the height of pretentiousness really. If you want to go waste your life watching hours and hours of it just so you can feel superior to all us common people who 'just don't understand art' then fine by me. Give me Kahlo, Picasso or Freud anyday - this is a pile of pish.
renza88 3 years ago
lighten up buddy art is art it doesn't have to be understood by everyone, it's there for interpretation. if ur interpretation id that it's pretentious then good on you
fewchamillyanaire 3 years ago
that wasnt dull at all
JonesH23 3 years ago 5
It may not be dull but would you sit through the whole 6 hours of watching it?
jjchipol 3 years ago
"god forbid's" someone makes something so mindless and call it "art". Let me publish a canvas of something awful....guess what? there's nothing on it, they painting image is inside you :). Fuck that shit. Call it want you want, shit is shit.
Ravenmist66 3 years ago
why don't you keep your negative comments to yourself
some people can see the meaning behind this movie, and if you can't then that's your loss but don't call it shit just because you don't get Warhol's artistic genius
and if the 60's was such a bad decade for music, why is it that some of the biggest bands in history came out of it?
fewchamillyanaire 3 years ago
if you can't take meaning from this movie then that's your loss but don't go mouthing off and call it shit just because you don't get Warhol's artistic genius
sometimes you have to look deeper than the surface of art to really appreciate it
and if the 60s was such a bad decade for music why is it that some of the biggest bands in history came out of it?
just because you don't like something doesn't mean that it's shit
fewchamillyanaire 3 years ago
sixties ruled,THIS is the WORST decade ever
arained 3 years ago
My art teacher said that this film was like a painting that was constantly changing. I think back then it was cool but now because our attention spans are so fucking short we really can't appreciate it the way people back then did.
PantyRaidProductions 3 years ago 2
This is a great film to SLEEP to...it's brilliant in many ways, and can be interpited in many ways too...granted, I think it's the fact of watching time as time passes us is the true concept...
I have only seen 1 hour of it (Italian Video Release), but the execution is great!
cinemazero225 3 years ago
Its genius but useless, i love watchig and documenting time, but eight hours, theres alot of new york to stare at Andy.
godwhyisthistaken 3 years ago 3
where can i watch the full version?
Huddiethegreat 3 years ago 2
Huddiethegreat: You have GOT to be joking. You would need to have absolutely NO LIFE at all (and probably a whole lot of really good drugs) in order to sit through this entire thing and actually "watch" it. What is there to watch? Why don't you stare at a picture on the wall for 8 hours? It'll probably be more exciting.
djtrixen 3 years ago
were can you watch eight hours of this bull, hell lol
godwhyisthistaken 3 years ago 3
The full version is eight hours. This movie came out during the heavy era of acid. The sixties was the worst decade ever. This advent-grade movie is fucking horrible and orginal copy should be thrown in the fucking garbage. For people who think this is deep...wait (tokes and smokes) you know what? This movie is awesome (eye's are red). Pathetic!
Ravenmist66 3 years ago
sixties were great for music. definitely not the worst decade ever...that goes to the 80s
Huddiethegreat 3 years ago 5
You're wrong! Sixties is the worst decade for music, then following the 90's worst decade of rock guitar. Now this era.....