Tuning the Sleeping Machine1996
What makes this film worth watching?
Official selection of the 1996 San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Member Reviews (4)
beautiful_really abstract & totally dream like_like a stream
"Television is the retina of mind's eye?" Faces, landscapes emerge and dissolve. Svengali, the Curse of Frankenstein, other films tug at recognition and disappear. This could only originate in the era in which one fell asleep in front of the blue flicker of the television (not the "monitor," not the "screen," but the cathode ray). I realize -- it's so obvious, really, that I wonder how I'd never really thought about it before -- that the vast majority of films that I have seen I have seen on TV, that TV has mediated my experience of film-watching in a way that is probably more formative than any of the times I watched films in a theater. This film is beautiful and frightening, dream- and nightmare-like, as only falling asleep in front of the Late, Late Show can be.
Need to watch more from him before deciding.
dreamy,next time more everything