Over night, Giorno became a major figure in the New York underground of the 1960s. The film, consisting of looped material, offers an intimate portrait of Giorno, showing the poet in a vulnerable state of nakedness and unbiased frankness in front of the camera. A stepping-stone for his artistic career was Warhol’s invitation to star in his film Sleep (1963). In the midst of New York’s pioneering pop-art movement Giorno found a fertile creative environment within which to take poetry to another conceptual level. “It occurred to me,” said Giorno of the early 1960s “that poetry was 75 years behind painting and sculpture and dance and music.” So the poet set out to change the situation. An evening full of word-soundscapes and poetry performing acts with infamous John Giorno, the “poet among painters.”
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