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IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS

IN DE ARMEN VAN MORPHEUS

By Marc SCHMIDT

KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2019

In the arms of Morpheus is an exploration of the domain of sleep, an attempt to penetrate the realm of the incomprehensible.

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Karlovy Vary IFF 2019
Documentary Films - Competition
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • NETHERLANDS
    • Languages
    • DUTCH, FLEMISH
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marc SCHMIDT
    • Producer(s)
    • Janneke DOOLAARD (DOXY)
    • Synopsis
    • Only in sleep can you escape the logic of daily life. By forgetting and dreaming. But what if your sleep is so intense that it disrupts your daytime life? In the arms of Morpheus is a quest into the beauty and cruelty of sleep. An irrational world that we cannot control, but that can control us. Roselien is always tired and falls asleep everywhere. There is an effective medicine but at what cost? Emily is plagued by apocalyptic nightmares and aggression during her sleepwalking. A ritual seems to offer a solution.
      Their stories are interwoven with a poet who spends her nights wandering through Brussels, a mother with a lifelike sleep paralysis and a musician with loud explosions in his head. One man has a dreamless sleep for no more than two hours and a waking life remains. Are you the one in your sleep, or the person when you are awake? Is your daily life a consequence of how you got through the night or is your nightlife a processing of your daily existence?
      The logic of the dream outweighs the reality of the documentary as In the arms of Morpheus gradually turns into a stimulating mosaic of radical sleep experiences; true-to-life observations containing strange elements and a conversation which takes place in a dream of a burned-out house. In an era in which efficiency and control are paramount, Marc Schmidt brings a cinematographic ode to the absurd and elusive sides of our existence.
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