Sleep Furiously
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Director: Gideon Koppel.
UK, 2008.
94 mins. Welsh with English subtitles.
SLEEP FURIOUSLY is set in a small farming community in mid
Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village of Llareggub. This is a place where Koppel’s parents – both refugees – found a home. It is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the filmmaker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire. Allied to a soundtrack by the revered electronic musician Aphex Twin, SLEEP FURIOUSLY is lyrical filmmaking at its best.
* Following the screening, we hope to welcome the director and the producer for a Q&A sponsored by BAFTA.
Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village of Llareggub. This is a place where Koppel’s parents – both refugees – found a home. It is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the filmmaker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire. Allied to a soundtrack by the revered electronic musician Aphex Twin, SLEEP FURIOUSLY is lyrical filmmaking at its best.
* Following the screening, we hope to welcome the director and the producer for a Q&A sponsored by BAFTA.
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Sleep Furiously by Festival Daily
21 Sep 2008
Something sublime comes slowly to the boil in SLEEP FURIOUSLY. At face value...
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