Project Detail

Shut Your Eyes

Name: Shut Your Eyes
Director: Nikolai Galen
Genre: Experimental, Drama
Released: 2009
Duration: 103 mins

Voice Of Shade

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

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Voice of Shade

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

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