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The Insomniac City Cycles
Directed Written and Produced by Ran Slavin.
Experimental Thriller. 70 minutes. Language English. Subtitles: French/English/Hebrew


A man wakes up with a bullet wound in an abandoned parking garage in Tel Aviv, having lost his memory and a gun.
As the man struggles to recall his recent past, a woman wakes up in a Shanghai hotel from a similar dream.
A fragmented conversation with a stranger on the phone sets off a strange exploration between the two.
Tel Aviv and Shanghai in a movie within a movie and a dream within a dream.

Through a fragmented non linear stream of events that encompass day and night, Tel Aviv and Shanghai are spliced through a vague notion of reality,
chaotic observations, drifting between physical and mental spheres, between the known reality and a hallucinatory one.
The film blends urban spaces and modes of perception, oscillating between film noir and science fiction, documentary and fiction.Through a probe of memory,
an exploration of the city spaces takes place, processing the city as experienced through an obscure labyrinth of memory fighting to distinguish real from unreal.
"The Cycles" explores various scenarios of two cities in transit shift and decay while checking boundaries of inner and external worlds, documentary and fiction,
present dream and future.

In The Insomniac City Cycles Ran Slavin explores a world with internal logic built on the axis of memory the real and the fantastic.
It is a travel through dream structures, events and un-foldings that inventively blend mystery, neo-noir and science fiction genres with experimental film making techniques.

The Insomniac City Cycles has been constructed as an ongoing and changing cinematic project. Having been initiated in 2004 and completed in 2009, it is actually the prequel
to Insomniac City and includes all of the chapters of the 5 year work cycle.

Cast:

Lee Trifon, Adi Gilad, Yaniv Abraham, Irad Mazliah, Ran Slavin

Crew

Dialogues co-written with Monika Bielskyte
Voice of man in pet shop: Ohad Naharin
Line Producer; Lior Ianai
Lighting; Nimrod Golan
Dressing; Maayan Goldman
Makeup; Dorit Cohen

Camera; Ran Slavin
Underwater camera; Alain Daniel
Editor; offline, online and post production; Ran Slavin

Music and soundtrack design; Ran Slavin
Sound mix; Itzik Cohen
Sound editors; Ran Slavin, Itzik Cohen, Omri levy

With tracks by:

"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"; Charlie Megira
Words & Music by Gabi Abudraham, performed by Rami Gabay, Shai Nobelman
Boaz Goldberg, Gabi Abudraham
Fact Records

"61"; @c
Composed and performed by: Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela
Cronica Records

"Clouds"; Third World Love
Composed and performed by Yonatan Avishai, performed by Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital, Daniel Freedman and Yonatan Avishai
Assal Records/NMC

"Through Solid Shadows"; The Circular Ruins w/ Off The Sky
Composed and performed by Jason Corder and Anthony Paul Kerby
DataObscura Records

"Ruined In A Day (Buenos Aires)"; Klimek
Composed and performed by Sebastian Meissner
Kompakt Records

The film was produced with the support of Cinema Project, a joint project of The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts & the Recanati Foundation
Supported by the Cultural Administration at the Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport and the Israeli Council for Cinema
Supported by the Israel Lottery Council for the Arts

A Nocturnal Rainbow Production
Filmed in the cities of Tel Aviv, Chengdo and Shanghai

Thanks:
The Rabinovich Foundation for the arts - Cinema Project, Israel Lottery Council for the Arts, Sheraton Tel Aviv, Giora Einy, Alon Garbuz, Yoav Abramovich,
Yoav Barkai, Danny Spaer, Daniel Shabtai Milo, Itzik Cohen, Omri Levi, Irad Mazliah, Avi Banon, Monika Bielskyte, Ohad Naharin, Shiri Slavin, Sigal Barnir, Yael Moria,
Rei Elbaz, On Air, Michal Shalit, Keren Arnaldes, Bernd Lennartz, Achim Szepanski, Itai Meir, Shablul pet shop, Shlomit Slavin,
Ritsko, All the crew, Oded Horowitz - Orlando Films

Special thanks:
Itzik Cohen, Daniel Shabtai Milo

World Sales:
JMT Films Distribution
Michael Treves
jmtreves@012.net.il
www.JMTFilms.com