The Insomniac City Cycles
5.00 out of 5
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Experimental / Fiction / Urban
Written Directed and Produced by: Ran Slavin
Running Time: 1:10:00
A man wakes up with a bullet wound in an abandoned parking garage in Tel Aviv, having lost his memory and a gun. As the man struggles to recall his recent past, a woman wakes up in a Shanghai hotel from a similar dream.
A fragmented conversation with a stranger on the phone sets off a strange exploration between the two. Tel Aviv and Shanghai in a movie within a movie and a dream within a dream.
Through a fragmented non linear stream of events that encompass day and night, Tel Aviv and Shanghai are spliced through a vague notion of reality, chaotic observations, drifting between physical and mental spheres,
between the known reality and a hallucinatory one. The film blends urban spaces and modes of perception, oscillating between film noir and science fiction, documentary and fiction.Through a probe of memory, an exploration of the city spaces takes place, processing the city as experienced through an obscure labyrinth of memory fighting to distinguish real from unreal.
"The Cycles" explores various scenarios of two cities in transit shift and decay while checking boundaries of inner and external worlds, documentary and fiction, present dream and future.
In The Insomniac City Cycles Ran Slavin explores a world with internal logic built on the axis of memory the real and the fantastic. It is a travel through dream structures, events and un-foldings that inventively blend mystery, neo-noir and science fiction genres with experimental film making techniques.
The Insomniac City Cycles has been constructed as an ongoing and changing cinematic project. Having been initiated in 2004 and completed in 2009, it is actually the prequel to Insomniac City and includes all of the chapters of the 5 year work cycle.
(Israel / China 2009)
Experimental Fiction / 70 minutes / PAL
Written Directed and Produced by Ran Slavin
IMDB: The Insomniac City Cycles
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An interesting movie to watch for its surreal qualities and the way it portrays the city of Tel Aviv. A dream like run though the cities of Shanghai and Tel Aviv and the attempt to find the missing link between the two. What is this cycle? Where and when did it start? Will it ever end?
As one story in this movie unravels we begin to discover that it might not ever end. An Israeli movie about the future we live in. Metropolitans filled with strangers who can’t sleep and us. We are all strangers in a city, we are all trapped in an endless city cycle. Poetry in a film.
I didn’t really know what to expect before watching this film. Yet the funny thingis that even after watching it I still don’t know exactly to describe what I’ve seen. A surreal film about a real life in Tel Aviv and Shanghai, two cities not linked by anything besides their urban setting.