Nocturnal Rainbow presents:
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The Insomniac City Cycles
Directed Written and Produced by Ran Slavin.
Experimental Thriller. 67 minutes. Language English. Subtitles: French/English/Hebrew
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.
A fragmented conversation with a stranger on the phone sets off a strange exploration between the two.
Tel Aviv and Shanghai in a movie within a movie and a dream within a 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 the 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 fighting to distinguish real from unreal.
"The Cycles" explores various scenarios of two cities in transit shift and decay while checking boundaries of inner and external worlds, documentary and fiction,
present dream and future.
In The Insomniac City Cycles Ran Slavin explores a world with internal logic built on the axis of memory the real and the fantastic.
It is a travel through dream structures, events and un-foldings that inventively blend mystery, neo-noir and science fiction genres with experimental film making techniques.
Available also as 3 channel installation and cd/dvd.
Cast:
Lee Trifon, Adi Gilad, Yaniv Abraham, Irad Mazliah, Ran Slavin
Crew
Dialogues co-written with Monika Bielskyte
Voice of man in pet shop: Ohad Naharin
Line Producer; Lior Ianai
Lighting; Nimrod Golan
Dressing; Maayan Goldman
Makeup; Dorit Cohen
Camera; Ran Slavin
Underwater camera; Alain Daniel
Editor; offline, online and post production; Ran Slavin
Music and soundtrack design; Ran Slavin
Sound mix; Itzik Cohen
Sound editors; Ran Slavin, Itzik Cohen, Omri levy
With tracks by:
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"; Charlie Megira
Words & Music by Gabi Abudraham, performed by Rami Gabay, Shai Nobelman
Boaz Goldberg, Gabi Abudraham
Fact Records
"61"; @c
Composed and performed by: Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela
Cronica Records
"Clouds"; Third World Love
Composed and performed by Yonatan Avishai, performed by Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital, Daniel Freedman and Yonatan Avishai
Assal Records/NMC
"Through Solid Shadows"; The Circular Ruins w/ Off The Sky
Composed and performed by Jason Corder and Anthony Paul Kerby
DataObscura Records
"Ruined In A Day (Buenos Aires)"; Klimek
Composed and performed by Sebastian Meissner
Kompakt Records
The film was produced with the support of Cinema Project, a joint project of The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts & the Recanati Foundation
Supported by the Cultural Administration at the Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport and the Israeli Council for Cinema
Supported by the Israel Lottery Council for the Arts
A Nocturnal Rainbow Production
Filmed in the cities of Tel Aviv, Chengdo and Shanghai
Thanks:
The Rabinovich Foundation for the arts - Cinema Project, Israel Lottery Council for the Arts, Sheraton Tel Aviv, Giora Einy, Alon Garbuz, Yoav Abramovich,
Yoav Barkai, Danny Spaer, Daniel Shabtai Milo, Itzik Cohen, Omri Levi, Irad Mazliah, Avi Banon, Monika Bielskyte, Ohad Naharin, Shiri Slavin, Sigal Barnir, Yael Moria,
Rei Elbaz, On Air, Michal Shalit, Keren Arnaldes, Bernd Lennartz, Achim Szepanski, Itai Meir, Shablul pet shop, Shlomit Slavin,
Ritsko, All the crew, Oded Horowitz - Orlando Films
Special thanks:
Itzik Cohen, Daniel Shabtai Milo
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For orders and screenings contact:
info@ranslavin.com
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Screenings of the various cycles:
2012
12/6 - 12/7 Insomniac City Cycles installation at "The perspiration of illusion" solo show at Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2/6 - 2/9 The Insomniac City Cycles installation at the exhibition "Augmented". "Al Hatsuk" Gallery, Netania Israel
15/2/12 Insomniac City Cycles screening at Abaton kino, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
2011
17.3/11 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Cinema Babylon as part of Maerzmusic 2011 Festival of Contemporary Music, Berlin
2009-2010
2/12/10 The Insomniac City Cycles screens at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
10-14/11/10 The Insomniac City Cycles at the 14th international short film festival Winterthur, Switzerland
11-18/9/10 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Split International Festival of New Film, Croatia
31/8/10 The Insomniac City Cycles at the 5th CineFantasy film festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
21/8/10 Insomniac City installation at the Haifa Museum "Over View" Israeli Video 2000-2010, curated by Sergio Edelsztein, Haifa, Israel
27/5/10 The Insomniac City Cycles screening in Curitiba, Brazil, organized by Itaœ Cultural as part of the "Mostravideo program
26/5/10 The Insomniac City Cycles screening in Belo Horizonte Brazil, organized by Itaœ Cultural as part of the "Mostravideo program
2/5/10 The Insomniac City Cycles screening at Rota Flora, Hamburg
26/4/10 The Insomniac City Cycles screening + Q&A at the Center For Contemporary Arts, Kalisher 5 st, Tel Aviv
7.12.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Haifa Cinematheque
25.11.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Third Ear Cinema, Tel Aviv IL
18.11.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Third Ear Cinema, Tel Aviv IL
11.11.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Third Ear Cinema, Tel Aviv IL
31.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque IL
24.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque IL
22.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Haifa Cinematheque IL
20.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Shderot (Darom) Cinematheque IL
18.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Shderot (Darom) Cinematheque IL
17.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque IL
11.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Jerusalem Cinematheque IL
9.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles premiers at the Icon Film Festival, Cinematheque Tel Aviv ILÊ
8.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles at the Rosh-Pina Cinematheque IL
6.10.09 The Insomniac City Cycles pre premier at the at the Icon Film Festival, Cinematheque Tel Aviv IL
2009- 2010 Insomniac City (V3) is presented on Souvenirs from Earth, the European Cable Network, France and Germany
11.3 > 29.3.09 Insomniac City 3 channel installation at Videoformes 2009, Clermont-Ferrand, France
22.11.08 > 7.3.09 Insomniac City 3 channel Video installation at the Petach Tikva Museum Of Art, Israel
8.11 The Insomniac City Cycles screens at the Contemporary Arts Centre, Plateaux Festival, Torun, Poland
26.6.09 The Insomniac City Cycles screens at the 45th Pesaro Film Festival, Italy
2008
June to September 2008: Insomniac City screens at the International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Prague
23-25.5 Insomniac City screens at Audiovisiva festival, Milan
15.3 Insomniac City screens at Netwerk, center for contemporary art, Aalst, Belgium
2007
6.12 Insomniac City screens at the International Festival for Cinema and Technologica, Florida USA
23.11.07 - Insomniac City screens at Torino Film Festival
15.11.07 - Insomniac City screens at The kassel Documentary Film Festival
04.8 - 24.8 Insomniac City screens at the "Transport(s) Urbain(s)" Exhibition, Saint Lizier, France
25-30.6.07 Insomniac City screens at the Babylon Movie Theatre, Rencontre Internationales, Berlin
5.5.07 Insomniac City screens at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Rencontres Internationales, MadridÊ
2006
14.12.06 - 14.12.06 - Insomniac City screens at the Jeu De Paume, the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin
30.11.06 - Insomniac City screens at the Jeu De Paume, the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris
28.11.06 - Insomniac City screens at the Cabanis Media Center in Toulouse, France
27.11.06 - Insomniac City screens at Electrosa, Rosa, Jerusalem
22.11.06 - Insomniac City screens at the Unsound music festival, Krakow
17.11.06 - Insomniac City screens at the Wormhole Saloon, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
13-19.10.06 - Insomniac City screens at the Big Screen, Liverpool
10.06 - Insomniac City screens at Pulsar, The Caracas Contemporary art museum, Venezuela
8.9.06 - Insomniac City screens at Double Exposure, Makor Gallery, New York
31.9.06 - Insomniac City screens at the international biennal (the MIVEAM) Montreal, Canada
20.9.06 -ÊInsomniac City screens at the Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool
16-17.9.06 -ÊInsomniac City screens at Espace Croise during the "journes du patrimoine" Roubaix,ÊFrance
29-31.8.06 - Insomniac City screens at C.Sides, International Convention Center, Jerusalem
10.8.06Ê - Insomniac City screens at "Intervention in public space", Jerusalem
8-10.8.06 - Insomniac City screens at Isea 2006 - international symposium of electronic arts / Zero One San Jose, California
20.5.06Ê - Insomniac City screens at "Details of Sound", Ukraine
8-14.5.06Ê - Insomniac City two channel video installation at the Media Nox gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
6.4.06 - Insomniac City screens at Ozen5, the Third Ear's cinema, thursday at 21:40, Tel Aviv
1.4.06 - Insomniac City screens at 66 East, Centre for Urban Culture, Amsterdam
1.4.06 - Insomniac City screens at Desi, Nurnberg, DE
25.3.06 - Insomniac City (part 3) screening at 'Hors Pistes' medium length film festival, the Pompidou Center, Paris
22.3.06 - Insomniac City screens at on Israeli TV, Channel 2 ,Israel
2.3.06 - Insomniac City screens at The 'Third Ears' new 5 cinema complex, Tel Aviv IL
8-23.2.06 - Insomniac City screens at the West London Synagogue, London UK
12.1.06 - Insomniac City screens at Projekt Migration, Cologne DE
2005
25.12 - Insomniac City screens at The Upgrades 'Architectural Patterns', Center for Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv IL
18.12 - Insomniac City screens at Documentaire Sur Grand Ecran, Paris FR
17.11 - Insomniac City screens at the Jeu De Paume national museum, Rencontre Internationales, Paris FR
5.11 - Insomniac City screens at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
21-30. 10 - Insomniac City screens at the 27th festival Cinema Mediterranean de Montpellier, FR
21.9 - Insomniac City screens at Ctrl_Alt_Del, 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
2.9 - Insomniac City screens at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, IL
16.6.05 - Insomniac City screens at Smadar Cinema, Jerusalem IL
17.5.05 - Insomniac City screens at the Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv IL
10.4.05 - Insomniac City screens at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, IL
11.3.05 - Insomniac City screens at the Haifa Cinematek IL
9.1.05 - Insomniac City screens at the Tel Aviv Cinematek IL
2004
Insomniac City installation at the Israeli Pavilion, 9th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy
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