
The Deep (Deep) Sleep
The Big (Deep) Sleep
Johannes DeYoung
United States
2020
Video art
Short Film
“The Big (Deep) Sleep” is a poetic reflection on anomie and desire, experienced through the vernacular of pulp-noir. As nightfall unfolds into surreal fever dreams, the landscape pitches into unrest. Whose interests steer us through the dark night of the soul?
general information
edition
5th ECRÃ Festival
venues
Online
date and time
duration in min
6
premiere
Latin Premiere 5th ECRÃ Festival
indicative classification
14 years / Not recommended for children under fourteen years old / Not recommended for children under fourteen years old
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tags
animation, art house, art, detective
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Johannes DeYoung

Johannes DeYoung is a multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. His work has been exhibited at the B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany; Crush Curatorial, Robert Miller Gallery, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Eyebeam, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY; the Images Festival at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland; and Hell Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal.
DeYoung is co-founder of the periodic web journal Lookie-Lookie. He is appointed Assistant Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught animation and moving-image courses at Yale University School of Art, where he was appointed Senior Critic and Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and at the Yale School of Drama, where he was appointed Lecturer in Design. He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2006.
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