Tuning the Sleeping Machine
![Tuning the Sleeping Machine
1996, 16mm, color/sound, 13 min.
"TUNING THE SLEEPING MACHINE maintains a dreamy oscillation between visual abstraction and a disjointedly submerged narrative of sexual menace. ... [It] recalls our shared experience of late-night television in which lambent images emerge from the screen and turn strange as they percolate through our half-conscious thoughts and reveries." - Paul Arthur, Film Comment
"Fragments of unidentified and yet strangely familiar films, pregnant with allusion and implication, drift into one another, obscured by the haze of re-photography, electricity and the residue of (al)chemical formulae, renamed time and memory. TUNING THE SLEEPING MACHINE resurrects the cinema projected on the unconscious, a series of images defined by the gaze of an eye, the presence in an empty room, the creeping darkness that shrouds a strange face. In this conflation of image and subject, the timeless dream of cinema finds its dreamer, and so do we." - Brian Frye
Screenings: New York Film Festival, 1996; Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Found Footage 98, Paris, France; San Francisco International Film Festival.](Tuning..._files/shapeimage_2.png)