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Deep Sleep
by Basma Alsharif
2014, 13′
Original Format: HD transfer from Super8 8mm film
Presented at Lo schermo dell’arte 2021 in occasion of the exhibition Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s
The film is part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – 6th edition
COURTESY: the artist and Galerie Imane Farès
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.