The Wakeful Sleeper
Belgium2020documentary75'Docs+Science (2021)
Manifestly inspired by the achievements of surrealists, the film is a recording of a private investigation in which the director is looking for the causes of a mysterious condition – insomnia. In a brilliant form, it is a beautiful metaphor on the path between reality and a dream, on what is a product of science and what is a sensation. What is a dream and what role does it play? Is there any inter-species dreaming community? In his intimate visual diary, Boris Van der Avoort records the states of mind and body suspended between light and darkness.
- directed by
- Boris Van der Avoort
He was born in 1967 in Belgium. In 1992 he earned a diploma in Photography from La Cambre in Brussels. In 1995 he continued his education at I.N.S.A.S and obtained a diploma in Editing. Since 1990 his photographs have been presented at individual and collective exhibitions in Belgium and abroad.
- cinematography
- Boris Van der Avoort, Johan Legraie, Aliocha Van der Avoort, Didier Guillain, Charles Bruère, Yves Pezet
- script
- Boris Van der Avoort
- sound
- Yves Robic
- editing
- Rudi Maerten, Boris Van der Avoort
- production
- Marie Kervyn (YC Aligator Film)
- Photo
