Movie Details
Original Language:English
Somniculus on the Web:Official Website
Somniculus
DirectorAli Cherri
15 min
Plot
Filmed inside a series of empty museum galleries across Paris Somniculus the Latin word for light sleep articulates the tension between the lives of dead objects and the living world that surrounds them Artefacts from museums of ethnography archaeology and natural sciences are all presented in their existing cultural context as the surviving objects of human interest
