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'The Sleepers' is a fairly long poem written by Walt Whitman in 1856 and consisting of eight parts. Gorewitz only uses a small number of stanzas to visualize his poetic interpretation . 'I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers, And I become the other dreamers.' Key words which determine the atmosphere of this video work, along with the images in vague tints like brown, pink, beige and mauve, emphasizing the dream world. Towards the end the images become more abstract, while Bob Carnevale recites: 'I see the hiding of douceurs, I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look, Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground nor sea.' Gorewitz uses 'voltage control dissolves' to animate photos; a technique producing a result linked to breathing. 'Subatomic Babies' will also be shown; more an example of an 'image processing' form experiment than a narrative work, while the images (travels, tombs, necking, scrap cars etc.) seem to suggest the latter.
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