Artist : Ran Slavin
Title : Insomniac City
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : Aug-22-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Mille Plateaux
Source : CDDA
Length : 38:52 min
Size : 53,7 MB
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38:52 min
A multi-media art project from the rejuvenated Mille Plateaux
label. The DVD disc (two-sided, both NTSC and PAL formats; for
worldwide viewing) features a 40-minute feature film written &
directed by Slavin. The CD features 77 minutes of
post-clicks'n'cuts atmospheric sound design that acts both as a
soundtrack to the movie and a completely separate audio
listening experience.
Insomniac City is a cinematic project in parts which morphs,
changes form, story and length as it develops, by Israeli
audiovisual artist Ran Slavin. A time-specific video, this
Mille Plateaux release features the latest episode, Insomniac
City [vers3]: Did I die? Did I kill? A man suffering from
insomnia tries to recall how he had been shot in one of the
city's underground car parks. A fragmented nonlinear stream of
events that encompasses day and night, Tel Aviv is spliced
through chaotic observations, a vague notion of reality,
physical and mental spheres, drifting between the known reality
and a hallucinatory one. The movie blends urban spaces and
modes of perception. It encounters estrangement, loss of
identity, loss of memory, dreams and floods, a gun, futuristic
architecture and artificial islands. Through the memory of the
figure at play, an exploration of the city spaces takes place,
as the city is experienced through an obscure labyrinth of
insomnia fighting to distinguish real from unreal. It explores
through video and sound possible scenarios of a city in
transit, shifting and decaying while checking the boundaries of
inner and external worlds, documentary and fiction, present,
dream and future, architecture, physical and metaphysical.
Insomnia dictionary translation: Chronic inability to fall
asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time. A
periodical suspension of the functions, as well as of those of
the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in
which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a
confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a
more or less unconscious state. This is the soundtrack and
movie all in one.
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