Movies: Sleep

A cat trying to nap....

This little film, which juxtaposes animated sand and scratching on 16mm film, was made during studies at the Royal College of Art. The starting point of this film was the sentence "but it's always when you're asleep that I want to talk to you", read ...

Three reckless robbers target a chinese mafia club. They do not know, however, that the bartender, the only one who knows the safe combination, is narcoleptic and falls asleep suddenly when he gets too emotional......

A worn and dreary detective starts to have delusions about demons from his past, unable to differentiate what's real and what's not....

One of the alleged ways to stay awake is by counting rams in your mind. During a sleepless night, the main character of the animation decides to test the effectiveness of monotonous counting on himself. Reaching the thirteenth ram, the perspective of...

Hans suffers from insomnia. But there is help available! A self-appointed specialist guides us through this absurd study of sleep....

Russian researchers funded by the Soviet Union during WWII are testing an expirimental gas on subjects deemed enemies of the state. The experimental gas is meant to eliminate the need for sleep, but all goes wrong as the gas has unexpected effects on...

Stuck in a decollate life and a dead marriage a father goes to any lengths to continue to dream a life for his daughter and himself...

A woman struggles to wake a man...

Jay hires James, a private detective, to find the mysterious figure responsible for his insomnia. As the case grows dire, Jay's secrets risk being uncovered....

A little boy is having trouble falling asleep because there are monsters in his bedroom...

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research o...

A boy is haunted by a spooky figure stalking him in the dark. This ghost story is inspired by childhood nightmares, aimed to build a creepy atmosphere with one or two jumpscares mixed in there....

It isn’t always fun to dream. Sometimes, the nightmares come true too. This short film was made for a school project, all rights are reserved....

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Soo-in as become sick and tired of his longtime love, Jung-Hwa. Besides, m ore and more, he is unable to sleep. One day, after a quarrel, she wasn’t able to contact him in any way. Did Soo-in disappeared or fallen into a deep sleep?...

Encyclopaedia Britannica outlines the basics of sleep hygiene....

In the eighteenth century the mystical midnight hour disappeared and the modern night was born. We now aim to keep sleep at an efficient minimum, but experiments show that we quickly return to the old sleep pattern if given the opportunity. So what i...

An accounting of dreams I’ve had while filtered as a D*sney cartoon....