Sleep Furiously is set in a small hill-farming community in Trefeurig, mid-Wales, a place where director Gideon Koppel's parents, both refugees, found a home. It's a landscape that's changing rapidly as small-scale agriculture, which characterised the area, is disappearing and the last generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out.
Taking its title from Noam Chomsky's famous example of a meaningless sentence, "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" Koppel manages to bring meaning and poetry to the line. With a score composed by Aphex Twin this is an artistic exploration of the dwindling flame of rural life, a profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Gideon Koppel.
Gideon Koppel's work as an artist and film maker has been broadcast internationally and exhibited in galleries from The Tate Modern London, to MoMA New York. Koppel is also an award-winning director of film commercials and has made films for several of the world's leading fashion designers such as Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons.
In partnership with Open City Docs
