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Autumnal Sleeps
(2019, 75m, 35mm/4K 1.37:1)

In a remote rural estate house, a woman sleeps, she is alone. It’s a time not far from the dawn of the moving image, the obsessed and wealthy Dr. Epstein engineers a number of scientific experiments. He subjects his adopted children, Pete and Re-Pete, along with his darling flapper, Baby Dee, to his various scientific tasks. Things take a decidedly strange turn when Epstein makes a deal with some shifty-looking vagabonds. On doing so he opens a door to the unknown, ruptures the fabric of time and unleashes a shadow-like character bent on reducing all those he encounters to dust.

Photographed on expired 35mm film with a 50year old Soviet camera, Autumnal Sleeps takes inspiration from early silent cinema. The characters and the nature of performance resemble those from a roadshow attraction while highlighting the illusory power of voyeurism and exhibitionism. Like unrestored film of early cinema, the image flickers and the colours bleed creating a psychedelic sensation as one transported through a haunting industrial score broken up with poetic interludes that examine the deeper emotions of the characters.

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WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY
Michael Higgins

SUPPORTED BY
The Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon na hÉireann

IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Experimental Film Society

CAST
Alain Servant
Natasha Everitt
Ambra Gatto Bergamasco
Henrik Gard
John Linnane
Conn Rogers
Cillian Roche
Enda Moran
Trish Murphy

MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN
Oli Ryan

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Michael Higgins

ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Jaro Waldeck

COSTUMES SUPPLIED BY
Abbey Theatre Costume Hire

COSTUME ASSISTANT
Grainne O'Carroll

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
Ania Ja

DRIVER
Wesley O'Duinn

EDIT & COLOURIST
Michael Higgins

ASSISTANT EDITOR
Juana Robles

35MM LABS
Niagara Custom Lab
Frame Discreet

SOUND MIX
Oli Ryan

ADDITIONAL BIRD SOUNDS
Suzanne Walsh

SPECIAL THANKS
Gerald & Helen Roche
Neasa Winder
Kevin & Susan Higgins
Olexandr Kalynychenko
Barbara Henkes
Áine Nic an Ríogh
Eimear Farrell
Rouzbeh Rashidi
Robert Jedrzejewski
Shane Clear
Paraic O'Neill

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