NP Warhol's Sleep

[Daniel Cape]

Hey does anyone know (has anyone actually watched this thing?) if John
Giorno wakes up at the end of this 321min opus?
Reading Tarkovsky's /Scultping In Time/ at the moment and he
references a 'film of the American underground' which 'shows a man
falling asleep; we then see him waking up, and, by its own wizardry,
the cinema gives that moment an unexpected and stunning aesthetic
impact' (113-114). Surely it's /Sleep/...?
I'm curious to know if Giorno wakes up, because that transformation
would like release the 'dramatic tension' (ha!) that builds up over
the 5 hours of his snooze. Similarly, Warhol's /Empire/ doesn't really
conform to  glib comments such as "It begins with a shot of a
skyscraper. Eight hours later, we're still looking at it" (Guardian).
Not really true -- the film ends with the building's floodlights
turning off, plunging the scene into blackness for its final moments
(and oh what moments they were/are).