Consider Warhol's Empire; an image from the film is included in the text. This avant-garde film challenged the conventions of studio-made films. How did it do so? Consider the history of cinema and this film's relationship to traditional narrative and editing. How does this film relate to other aspects of this artist's work?

What will be an ideal response?

Film was hailed initially as a wonderful medium for creating popular storytelling entertainment. Yet from the beginning there were people claiming it could be practiced as an art, like photography, subsequently leading to a new approach to films by visual artists. Andy Warhol, a pop artist, had an unusually prolific engagement with films. Warhol's early films resembled his paintings in that they challenge the idea that something will "happen." Empire was an eight-hour fixed-camera recording of the Empire State Building, with the intent of presenting a way of watching time pass.