To Sleep So as to Dream (夢みるように眠りたい), dir. Kaizo Hayashi, Japan 1986, 83 min., Japanese with English subtitles, 12
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Magic and mystery abound in this striking debut feature by filmmaker Kaizo Hayashi which follows a private detective who is hired to find the missing daughter of a silent film actress.
With a title that alludes to Shakespeare’s Hamlet and an intricate film-within-a-film structure, To Sleep So as to Dream is not a simple film to classify. Both a tribute to silent cinema and a playful deconstruction of it, Hayashi’s film is one of dreams, mysteries, and more than a handful of hardboiled elements.
The film is screening on a 16mm print from the ICA Archive. It is followed by a screening of Kazuo Hara's second feature, Circus Boys.
With a title that alludes to Shakespeare’s Hamlet and an intricate film-within-a-film structure, To Sleep So as to Dream is not a simple film to classify. Both a tribute to silent cinema and a playful deconstruction of it, Hayashi’s film is one of dreams, mysteries, and more than a handful of hardboiled elements.
The film is screening on a 16mm print from the ICA Archive. It is followed by a screening of Kazuo Hara's second feature, Circus Boys.
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02:30 pm
Sat, 12 Jul 2025
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