Somniloquies produced by documenta 14, Norte Productions, S.E.L ; producers, Valenina Novati, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor ; a film by Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Castaing-Taylor, Lucien, film producer, filmmaker.

McGregor, Dion, narrator.

Novati, Valentina, film producer.

Paravel, Véréna, 1971- film producer, filmmaker.

documenta 14 (Firm), production company.

Grasshopper Film (Firm), publisher.

Norte Productions (Firm), production company.

Sel Yayıncılık, production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McGregor, Dion.

Sleeptalking.

Genre:

Biographical films

Documentary films

Experimental films

Feature films

Nonfiction films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (73 min., 9 sec.)) sound, color

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] Grasshopper Film [2024?]

Language Note:

In English, with English subtitles

System Details:

sound

digital

video file

Summary:

A wild orgy, a mass drowning, a dwarf city for rent, a surgical operation that goes tragically awry, a baroque mansion for sale that doubles up as a torture chamber, a de-pressurized Experiment Hall that causes ladies' fingernail polish to fly off their nails... such were the nocturnal dramas of the world's most garrulous sleep-talker. An American lyricist who yearned for a career on Broadway, Dion McGregor dreamed out loud while his New York roommate recorded him over seven years in the 1960s. In somniloquies, McGregor's nightly musings are coupled with images of sleeping nudes. A roving camera that moves indiscernibly from one contour and orifice to another, one body to another, one gender to another, one ethnicity to another, one animal to another

Participant:

Dion McGregor, narrator

Credits:

Camera, sound, editing, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Notes:

Originally released as a documentary film in 2017

Description based on online resource; title and statement of responsibility from title screen and end credits (viewed 2024 October 30)

OCLC:

1464815499

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license