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Shut Your Eyes

Synopsis

Shut Your Eyes, loosely based on the play of the same name, is about a stormy couple in real life who come back together to make a film where, try as they might, they can't avoid falling into their old traps. A naked couple spinning their ritualized vocal and physical dialogue in a loft reserved for their rituals. A black comedy about the animal poetry of seduction and sexuality. About the fantasies the couple makes real or the reality they make into fantasy. About the jagged borderlines between film - fiction and documentary, theater, dance and poetry. Shut Your Eyes was filmed in twelve long-take scenes with one HD camera in Istanbul during Summer 2008.
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Details

Year
2009
Type of project
Features
Running time
103 mins
Format
16 x 9 video
Director
Nikolai Galen 1st Feature
Producer
Nick Hobbs
Editor
Hanna Husberg, Nikolai Galen
Screenwriter
Nikolai Galen
Director of Photography
Hanna Husberg
Production Designer
Natalie Schaevers
Sound
Mustafa Kemal Öztürk, Etienne Peslerbe
Principal cast
Caterina Perazzi, Sean Lewis

Genre

Experimental Drama

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Voice of Shade

Türkali Mah
Abbasaa Kuyu Sok. No:13
Beikta Istanbul 34357
Turkey

http://www.voiceofshade.net/Page.aspx?PageId=39

Sales Company

Cemre Sen

cemre@voiceofshade.net

Maja Kuzmanovic

maja@voiceofshade.net

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