Sleeping Angels

6 minutes 12 seconds
Music By Dan Parry

Vocals by Sir Willard White
Filmed in Tokyo

While their minds wander off into a hidden realm of dreams, the dozing Japanese commuters in Nathalie Latham’s poetic looped video projection Sleeping Angels are progressing through real time and space. Accompanied by a charged and highly evocative soundtrack by Dan Parry which conjures up worlds of unconscious release, these ubiquitous travellers, almost oblivious to their surroundings, cultivate their own private space and, in the process, escape the mundanity of underground transit that personifies urban travel in the modern world.

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