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sleep noises

A film responding to the movements and rhythms of a landscaped ecosystem

  • dunt project
    Director
  • dunt project
    Writer
  • dunt project
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 13, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - University of Chicago
Director Biography - dunt project

dunt project is Kirsten Ihns and Brett Swenson

Brett Swenson is a visual artist who explores the felt mechanics of seeing and perceiving. He received his MFA in Visual Art from the University of Chicago in 2020, and exhibits his work internationally.

Kirsten Ihns is a PhD candidate at UChicago studying perceptual rhythms in contemporary poetry and film, and received her poetry MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first book is sundaey; poems appear in Hyperallergic, The Poetry Foundation, & elsewhere.

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Director Statement

Our films make places perceptible as ecosystems. Influenced by experimental filmmakers ranging from Barbara Hammer to Hollis Frampton, sleep noises attunes viewers to a new perceptual language derived from a particularly American network of environmental relations.