by Basma Alsharif, 2014, 13'
| COURTESY: the artist and Galerie Imane Farès | HD transfer from Super8 8mm film |
Presented at Directing the Real. Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s, 2017
Temporarily restricted from travel to the Gaza Strip because of border conflict, the artist undertook the study and practice of auto-hypnosis with the purpose of bilocating into multiple places at once. Deep Sleep is made up of a year’s worth of bi-location sessions recorded onto Super8mm film. The result is a movement through the ruins of ancient civilizations as embedded in modern civilization- in-ruins. Deep Sleep draws from the historical avant-garde cinema to produce an invitation to transcend geographical borders in a collective act that discards memory in exchange for a visceral present.
Temporarily restricted from travel to the Gaza Strip because of border conflict, the artist undertook the study and practice of auto-hypnosis with the purpose of bilocating into multiple places at once. Deep Sleep is made up of a year’s worth of bi-location sessions recorded onto Super8mm film. The result is a movement through the ruins of ancient civilizations as embedded in modern civilization- in-ruins. Deep Sleep draws from the historical avant-garde cinema to produce an invitation to transcend geographical borders in a collective act that discards memory in exchange for a visceral present.