The Big Sleep

2014
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 19 mins
|14 Seconds
Colour/B&W,
Sound: Stereo
Ratio: 4:3
Available Format/s: SD Video / SD digital file
Original Format: n/a

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Sleep deficient actors drift in and out of consciousness.From the solo exhibition “Shutter”.Background:”Shutter” is a new audio-visual exhibition that enables us to peer into a parallel cinematic world that exists between the edits, when we are not looking at the screen.Actors aren’t seen to rest a lot in films, considering people on average sleep 8 hours a day. More often than not, feature films contain a stream of attention-grabbing imagery and noise, and if the mood does slow down there is still dialogue, music and other distractions.In feature films we don’t see the real-time flow of everyday life, we don’t see the actors queuing, watching TV, reading a book, sleeping. Nor do we witness the mundane – we see the James Bond car chase but no stopping off to eat a panini. Reality can be brought back into film by revealing actors in their normal, uneventful moments. Actors need to sleep as well. Where do they go after a film has ended? What do we miss when we blink while watching a movie? What is it really like on the other side of the screen? This exhibition addresses these subjects and attempts to take us to these places.peoplelikeus.org/2014/shutter-a-new-solo-exhibition-by-vicki-bennett/

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