THEME EXPLORATION

sleep and rest

6 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
async - first light
async - first light
2017 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A Pest in the House
A Pest in the House
1947 · Chuck Jones
Asleep
Asleep
1961 · Stephen Dwoskin
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, ) executive producer
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, ) executive producer
2002 · Steven Soderbergh
Conjuring: The Beyond
Conjuring: The Beyond
2022 · Calvin Morie McCarthy
How to Sleep
How to Sleep
1953 · Jack Kinney
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand

His work extensively explores sleep, dreams, and memory through long takes and temporal ambiguity, treating rest as a portal to spiritual and emotional states.

 Béla Tarr Hungary

His films like 'Sátántangó' and 'Werckmeister Harmonies' depict worlds of exhaustion and stasis where characters exist in states of semi-sleep and existential numbness.