Sleep Furiously
Synopsis
Sleep Furiously is set in a small farming community in mid Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village of Llareggub, a place where Koppel’s parents – both refugees – found a home. This 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.
The central character in the film is John Jones who, once-a-month, drives the library van around the Trefeurig community, from farm to farm, collecting and delivering books. This bright yellow van becomes both literally and metaphorically a vehicle of stories – stories which take 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 has been described as 'lyrical film making at its best'.
Details
- Year
- 2010
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 94 mins
- Format
- super 16mm - 35mm
- Director
- Gideon Koppel 1st Feature
- Producer
- Serge Lalou, Mike Figgis
- Editor
- Mario Battistel
- Director of Photography
- Gideon Koppel
- Sound
- Chris King
- Music
- Aphex Twin
- Location Sound Supervisor
- Joakim Sundström
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 8th October 2009
