Warhol had the idea for the film, an eight-hour epic of a man sleeping, before he bought his first movie camera. The finished film, however, is only five hours. Refreshments will be available throughout the screening. Both Bob Lee, Black Panther activist and subject of the film, and director Mike Gray will be in attendance for a question and answer session following the screening. The event, curated by Patsy Cravens, is sponsored by the artists of the Imagine Jasper art show at the Community Artists Collective.
Admission is free.
It shows at the Rice Media Center April 7 and will be introduced by history graduate student Ron Haas. Introduced by history graduate student Ron Haas, this outrageous work mixes pornography, slapstick violence, political rhetoric and virtuoso camerawork to present director Jean-Luc Godard's vision of middle class decadence in the troubled France of the 1960's. The Art Car Symposium is an integral part of the Orange Show Foundation's Art Car Weekend. This internationally recognized festival is a display of outsider art that can only take place in a city with as many cars as people. The Art Car Parade is in its 13th year, and the Rice Media Center is hosting, for the first time, the annual symposium.