2008 · documentary
Sleep Furiously
Directed by Gideon Koppel1h 34m2008
Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, 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. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.
Our read: Sleep Furiously (2008) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
- gentle
- signature
- intimate
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