For the prompt of this project, “time” I wanted to explore how sleep (or lack thereof) affects how we experience time. During sleep it’s almost as if we time travel and fast-forward into the future - we lose time in this way but it is also something we cannot function without. When one goes through sleep deprivation, the brain begins to malfunction and we experience increased stress, anxiety, irritability, brain fog, tremors, decreased coordination and many more symptoms that become worse the longer we stay awake. The narrative of the project follows someone with insomnia, and the frustration associated with not being able to sleep, as well as the increasingly worrisome symptoms.

Inspiration:

Awake (2021) dir. Mark Raso

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) dir. Wes Craven

The Fall of The House of Usher, Episode 6 (2023), dir. Mike Flanagan

Being extremely sleep deprived during filming/ conceptualizing