THE INSOMNIAC CITY CYCLES
The Insomniac City Cycles
Directed written and produced by Ran Slavin. Israel 2009
Fiction. 70 minutes. Language english. English and/or hebrew subtitles.
Film Synopsis:
Through a disintegrating mosaic of memory shards, a man suffering from insomnia tries to figure out how he came to be shot in one the city's underground parking lots. He no longer knows what is real or a dream while the city increasingly reflects his condition.
A dazed beauty wakes up disoriented and tied in a hotel in Shanghai from a similar dream by a mysterious phone call.
A fragmented conversation with a stranger who seems to also be her lover rolls into an underworld-ish nocturnal coil amidst the ultra urban night cityscapes of Shanghai and Tel Aviv.
The Insomniac City Cycles is Israeli director's Ran Slavin first feature. It oscillates between film noir and science fiction, a known reality and a sensorial one. The film becomes an outlandish mix of dark and bizarre psychological drama exploring a remote and dreamy twilight zone.
The Insomniac City Cycles is a cyclical cinematic project that originated in 2004 as a 40 minute video installation and is now the last and final chapter reshaped with additional scenes into a stand alone feature.