SOMNIA / INSOMNIA

A series of films by Pascal Greco
Original Soundtrack by Goodbye Ivan

 

"Where do they come from… ?
Are they the inhabitants of an imperceptible world wavering between limbo and firmament?
Have they always been present or is it our senses that give them shape and life?
Do they exist or are they a resonance and shaping of our projections?
Why do they seem so familiar to us and yet impossible to apprehend?
Are they us? Are they part of us?
Are they dreams of power and grace?

An immersion without temporality or defined spaces."

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In 2023, the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) in Geneva gave Greco carte blanche to make SOMNIA, a film featuring bodies of magnified diversity, sometimes wearing masks, moving and dancing in the MAH building, accompanied by original music, written for organ, piano, and percussion, composed by Goodbye Ivan. In 2024, using the many unused rushes, Greco made a “B side”, a second short film, INSOMNIA, in which he favoured a montage of close up shots, where the camera “caresses” the skin, whether that of a sculpture, a naked body, or the stone of the building. The image, which alternates between near darkness, saturated light, and whitish tones, works in perfect symbiosis with the hushed piano melodies, creating an atmosphere that is as sensual as it is dreamlike. The music is again by Goodbye Ivan, who has also composed a B-side by rearranging some of SOMNIA’s themes acoustically.