Un Homme qui dort (A Man Asleep) [1974]

a commentary


[video credits to Mubarak Ali's Supposed Aura and arcilsota]
[photo credits to Jack on Cinema talk; read Jack's review on the remarkable, poetic film]



BEFORE anything else,

A Man Asleep [Georges Perec & Bernard Queysanne, 1974]

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Alienation.

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To isolate oneself.

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To detach.

To feel one's existence through a second voice.

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Speaking and reaching out.

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To believe...

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... an empty life and...

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...nothing more...
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...nothing less...
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REFLECTION: I began my February 18 just like this, just like what happened to him, alone and doleful. As if my whole life is embodied in small moments, carefully formed in packets of time, stretched out through centuries, through the years and months of reveries, through the wide angling trees, through the winds and the skies and seas... Everything seemed lost... Everything is there but lost... Everything is lost

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... But i felt happiness instead...