Mark LaPore: `Memory, as well as the residue of information in text and film from Sudan, led me to make The Sleepers in order to explain the impression that the Third World is present in the First World as an idea and a condition. The Sleepers is a film about how notions of culture are often defined by information received indirectly – information which frequently violates the particulars of people and place and makes questionable our ability to portray specific individuals as representatives of culture.
Also in this combined programme
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The Glass System
Largely a portrait of Calcutta, but the film can also lead us to make personal assumptions about a ‘lost’ New York. -
Kolkata
This film, a portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), searches the streets of the city to see how people are doing and reflects the changing landscape… -
Lunatic Princess
And magical loop of time changing form with a snow daughter, an orphan of the storm. Reminiscent of the fairy tale by Anderson about the… -
Untitled (for David Gatten)
A valentine card or a greetings card, a well meant homage to courage and perseverance in the form of a videogame that Wittgenstein could play.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1989
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
