THE INSOMNIAC CITY CYCLES-Ran Slavin
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.
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 a 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 in a fight to distinguish real from unreal.
The Insomniac City Cycles explores strange scenarios of two people and two cities in transit, shift, decay, while checking boundaries of inner and external worlds, dream and fiction.
