Tuning the sleeping machine

Duration: 13

Year Published: 1996

Creator: David Sherman.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Sherman, David, direction.; Canyon Cinema.

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.; 'Fragments of unidentified and yet strangely familiar films, pregnant with allusion and implication, drift into one another, obscured by the haze of rephotography, electricity and the residue of (al)chemical formulae, renamed time and memory. TUNING THE SLEEPING MACHINE resurrects the cinema projected on the unconscious, a series of images defined by the gaze of an eye, the presence in an empty room, the creeping darkness that shrouds a strange face. In this conflation of image and subject, the timeless dream of cinema finds its dreamer, and so do we" - Brian Frye; PFA 1606-01-12124. D0210; PFA 1606-01-12123. D0210; PFA 1606-01-12124. CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2010/10 /22 Excellent condition. Print was coated with Photogard in 1996.; PFA 1606-01-12123. CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2010/10 /22 Excellent condition.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE