Filmography
Goodbye Pre-Frontal Cortex (2023)
Last Fall (2022)

Director's notes
After dealing with insomnia for most of my life, I wanted to find a way to visually re-create the disorientation experienced after prolonged sleep disturbance. For example, the split-screens combining both text and visual elements means that the viewer is forced to concentrate on two opposing elements at once - simulating the mentally taxing experience of focusing even in a state of lucidity and fatigue.
I also wanted the film to demonstrate how many of the commonly suggested antidotes to sleepless-ness, such as 'not thinking about your tiredness' and 'listening to calming and relaxing sounds' are often futile when confronted with a restless mind. It is for this reason I have often found myself lured by the refuge offered by digital screens which tend to have an anaesthetic effect, offering a temporary escape from one's current state of mind and physical reality.
By combining ASMR whisper sounds with the visual footage, I hoped to provide a multi-sensory experience for viewers in which they are able to experience the disconnected relationship to reality one has when suffering from insomnia, and ultimately to gain an insight into how prolonged lack of sleep eventually bleeds into your perception of both yourself and your surroundings.