Deep Sleep, 2014, 12 minutes

A hypnosis-inducing pan-geographic shuttle built on brainwave-generating binaural beats, ‘Deep Sleep’ takes us on a journey through the sound waves of Gaza to travel between different sights of modern ruin. Restricted from travel to Palestine, director Basma al-Sharif learned auto-hypnosis for the purpose of bi-locating. What results is a journey, recorded on Super 8mm film, to the ruins of ancient civilizations embedded in modern civilization in ruins, to a site ruined beyond evidence of civilization.

‘Deep Sleep’ is an invitation to move from the corporeal self to the cinema space in a collective act of bi-location that transcends the limits of geographical borders and plays with the fallibility of memory.