The read
It runs a compact 15m.
Synopsis
Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic daydream; the film is a cocktail that merges Müller's own shots and found footage like a love act. Nude bodies of sailors are flaring up in flickering solarization effects; they are given an ardent aura of physical desire by this tattooing of the film emulsion. Müller only gradually changes his material metaphors to metaphors of love. But it is not only FIREWORKS the film is alluding to; there is yet another classic shimmering through Müller's imagery: Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Matthias MüllerDirector
Cast
- Mike HoolboomCast
- Armin ChristenCast
- DupekCast
- Matthias MüllerCast
- Dean PaschCast
- Dirk SchoenbohmCast
Stills
Themes
found footageclaustrophobicdreamlikeshort film