Temporarily restricted from travel to the Gaza Strip because of border conflict, I undertook the study and practice of auto-hypnosis with the purpose of bi-locating into multiple places at once. Paired with field recordings rendered into a binaural beat soundtrack, Deep Sleep is made up of a year’s worth of bi-location sessions recorded onto Super 8mm film. The result is a movement through the ruins of ancient civilisations as embedded in modern civilisation-in-ruins. Deep Sleep draws from the historical avant-garde cinema to produce an invitation to move through a body as a body, to transcend geographical borders in a collective act that discards memory in exchange for a visceral present.

Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Pause