Written by Marcos Ortega
January 21, 2010
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Images of the Sleeper is about the concepts that pour through the Artist's mind while processing feelings during the process of creating. Images of the Sleeper is a free-association of dream-like images of visual poetry while intergrating actual footage of Brice Bowman painting.
In the end, Images of the Sleeper is about the life of a piece of art after the death of an artist.
The blue bean is a wonder of nature.
Cinema made out of the minimum and essential: light, its projection and a violated media (black film obtained from processing unexposed colour footage). After "Cada cuatro fotogramas" (Every four frames), the approach to 'negative' filmmaking continues, building by demolition, the film showing us what survives the physical removal of any of its parts. The image is made of points of light on the verge of disintegration, holes that pierce a surface, the celluloid, giving us a compulsive drip of frayed forms that will make us think of the outbreak of the screen. The sounds of Mattin, cracked, shrill, lacerating trebles, stick to the images with a maximum relevance. From the first frame, the frontality of the movie avoids complacencies of any kind with the viewer, forcing him to question the resistance of his listening and his eyes.
This film is about an artist reflecting switching medias and concepts from painting (abstract expressionism) to film and in the process reflecting on early influences in his youth of such as Man Ray, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Jean Cocteau, Giorgio de Chirico,... and so on.
Dimensionalizing Times Square in New York City.