Deep Sleep

Ametsa has been in a clinic for some months, the same time she has not been able to sleep.

This stop-motion 16mm film offers an audiovisual meditation on the material animation of stones. The concept is inspired by Camillo Leonardi's "Speculum Lapidum", published in 1533, which describes the magical healing virtues of a variety of stones, categorized by colour. The character-based animate

A scientist studying the first human time traveller falls in love with her subject. But if her research succeeds they will become separated by eons of history. She must find a way to connect with him across the ages or lose him forever.

Hypnagogia is a short animated abstract movie, which depicts visual sensory phenomena of pseudo-hallucinations, so called "hypnagogic", experienced when crossing the borders of sleep. Film is balancing between poetry and documentary, trying to catch the feel of loosing the control over your consciou

In the first evidences of mankind in the south of Brazil we meet, side by side, the visible and the invisible parts of a story.

A ringing sound breaks into a woman's sleep. The sinister telephone becomes tangled in its own cord and plunges into a dreamlike oblivion. As no one answers the call, nothing will ever come of it, and it will remain an enigma, cloaked in anonymity and nothingness.

REM: the stage of sleep which invokes dreams. The film attempts to depict these hypnagogic visions, which are presented without narration. Fragments of the unconscious overtake and dismantle one another, in the process obliterating the dream from memory.

Marie is a doctor. She smokes and reads a lot. And speaks from time to time with the dead. Today, she learns that it is her turn to die. She only has to live a few weeks. It's short. She must act quikly, dream, laugh and still live…

An interview with David Stodolsky, member of the Cryonics Institute describe the cryonic procedure and the ideas of preserving bodies for thousands of years in the future, he guides us through the Building-Monument built over the previous house of Walter Gropius in Dessau, Germany. Renovated by Brun

This short film is about the apparent incoherence of coma. A woman in a bright red dress, figures wearing cold hospital clothes, a forest, a lake, and muted, distant voices unconnected to the image are among the contrasting elements brought together here. What may be logical to one person can seem i

A brand new product has hit the market: golden pills that allow consumers to have safe pre-made dreams. Like everybody else, Alex takes them regularly but due to an inconvenience he is forced to quit. Brought back to reality, he must deal with unexpected consequences.

What happens in our brains when we're daydreaming? This episode is a dream-like ride that explores the science behind why, as we rush into the future, it's more important than ever to let our minds wander. Part of series " The Future Starts Here " About " The Future Starts Here ": Explore what it me

Part lyrical document, part farce, Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations on the Dreamlife of Beasts explores the imaginary unconscious minds of animals. Images of sex, death, and the natural world are made manifest in the murky and disquieting dreams of a dog, cat, pig and rabbit.

Phosphenes blend 2D digital animation and photo-animation to explore the processes of developing thoughts and the understanding of birth, life, and death in the natural world.

A sleeping computer dreams of humans forms, transforming their digital data into abstract and playful shapes. Movements, emotions, and musical lines are added layer upon layer until the complexity overloads the system and the dream ends. Reverie.exe combines Microsoft Kinect motion capture and music

A young Mexican biologist living in New York discusses the reasons for her transformation into a Monarch butterfly.

Have you ever woken in the night, unable to move, convinced that you are not alone? This is a film about what is real, what is not and if it even matters.

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Listen to the hippocampal neurons of rat as it dreams and awakes from its deepest thoughts. As it comes out of its dream state, the rats 'place cells' are active in distinct locations (place fields) while a rat runs along a track. These place cells were first discovered in the brain, and specificall

An anthropological study of sleep in the digital age.

A hypnotic voice-over narrates a text based on personal experience as a night porter. Here, the nightshift becomes a metaphor that tells about the mechanics of perception, describing a particular state of mind caused by working at night in relation to an self-generated filmic illusion in which one p

A short reflection on the topic of being tired.

A hypnosis-inducing pan-geographic shuttle built on brainwave generating binaural beats, Deep Sleep takes us on a journey through the sound waves of Gaza to travel between different sights of modern ruin. From the ruins of an ancient civilization embedded in a modern civilization in ruins (Athens),

This is a story about the mysterious world of anti-utopian future where each human-being's fallen asleep and replaced himself by robots. Unusual robot is destined to find output - he is seeking answers to his disturbing dreams.

Something has happened and society as we know it does not function anymore. In this video I portray situations of an apocalyptic nature. The video is based on my thoughts of a possible future and on a lucid dream I had this year. What and how will survival function in case we have to live through it

The film is built from a tipping point that leads us imperceptibly from day to night, fleeting a moment where what was is gone, where things can take another meaning. Many voiceovers that cross the portable telephone, speaking of ghosts, guide us through the city, while the camera seems in search of

Winter persists. Something happened. At the heart of the woods, on the slopes of mountains, in the streets and even inside homes, a strange silence took up residence. Will there remain a soul to witness the recent event?

A film that balances the precision of a Swiss watch with the messiness of a restless mind, Wide Awake is filmmaker Alan Berliner's uniquely personal tour through his life-long obsession with insomnia. In the spirit of his highly acclaimed experimental documentary films, Intimate Stranger (1991), Nob

Sleep disturbances from outside and within.

Have you ever felt paralyzed while sleeping like someone is sitting on your chest unable to move, unable to scream. What do you do if this isn't a nightmare? If this isn't imaginary? If your fears are real.

"Mom, at what point did you stop hugging me when taking me to school?" SUR l´eau REAL is an experimental short film that arose out of this question posed by my adult son. The piece is connecting this question to a dream experienced about twenty years back and to thoughts risen by "L´eau

"It must be about one week since it happened...." A deserted beach in the morning, empty alleyways in the midday heat, panoramas of a grid of streets where no movement can be perceived from the distance. What looks like the normal downtime in the rhythm of a Southern European coastal city's day &mda

Move depicts the surreal dream life of a young comatose man, and how it attempts to guide him to consciousness. Although he seems to be disconnected from life, his interior self echoes symbols of caring from the outer conscious world. Even after he appears to awaken, his imagination presents more am

Sleep. Do we get enough? The latest developments in circadian biology research are uncovering the detrimental effects that a lack of sleep can have to our well-being. Sleepless is the result of a two year conversation between artist Ellie Land and scientist Professor Peter Oliver about the links now

What is it like to be a spider? A creature that lives in the same environment as we do and yet has an experience far removed from ours. The film The Mulch Spider's Dream evokes a non human world through shape, colour and rhythm. The seemingly abstract images are made by using the internal chemistry

The film Inscapes was created to help solve an immediate, practical problem inherent to a branch of neuroimaging research called "resting state" functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Usually for these scans, subjects lay inside the MRI magnet and look at what we call a fixation cross (a stat

In poetic images, Plant Dreaming Deep exposes the exhausting transitional phases of loneliness, insecurity and isolation. By means of analogue video synthesis, fine-pored textures and washed out veils of colour were created, which find a suitable complement in the pulsating soundscape of Emilie Paye

Three sisters are living in an old Japanese house. Crabs released by a man subvert the meaning of the house and the bodies. This is the latest work of the "Living Creatures Sci- Fi" Series, which has been continuing since 2011.

Monsoons Over The Moon is a mythical tale about a street gang known as The Monsoons who escaped an oppressive system. The story is set in a period of political dictatorship that has enslaved the people. The Monsoons are now resurfacing to help the youth in the ghettos break out of this dictatorship.

With the help of the most consacrated neuroscientists, "Herner Werzog" travels inside the brain of artists and filmmakers from all over the world and documents their dreams. In Lisbon (Portugal), young director Gabriel Abrantes will be the victim.

Gregor and Harold, two corals living in the underwater remains of Miami, share their dreams with each other. Made without any computer effects, using real coral specimens.

The radial arm maze test is one of the most widely used tests for assessing anxiety, working memory and hippocampal plasticity. Initially placed at the centre of the maze, the entry of the mouse into one of the 8 paths triggers an edit in the human footage. The resulting human montage provides a uni

During ancient Sumerian and Mesopotamian time it was believed that divinities sent visions to their rulers to commission their city sanctuary. The statue of the king Gudea, ruler of Lagash (a region in modern-day southern Iraq), around 2200–2100 BCE was found throughout the excavation at Tello

With a soundtrack gleaned from composer Delia Derbyshire's classic "Inventions for Radio" series for the BBC, Magnusson crafts a collage of oil-slide projections and family snapshots illustrating the qualities of dreams, memory and color.

At the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory at the University of Montreal, Elizaveta Solomonova is searching for expert dreamers: people who can visit dream land and report back accurately what they see, hear, feel, and even smell. For most of us, remembered dreams are filled with sights and maybe sounds. B