Working Title: Ready to Sleep

As part of the exhibition of the same name at Galerie Mezzanin which in turn is part of curated by: The Century of the Bed, Sabeth Buchmann and Mina Lunzer are presenting art and science films on the subject of dreams and research into dreaming. Taking up beds in and as mass media phenomenon, the center of attention is focused on film and television programs which deal explicitly or implicitly (iconographically) with the differences between active/living and passive/dead bodies and lie at the interface with popular culture and life sciences.

Film Program

Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence on The Big Breakfast, 1995, 7 min

Rainer Kirberg, Das schlafende Mädchen, 2011 (excerpts)

Mina Lunzer, Der Schlaf und das "bewegte Bild". Die Rolle des Films in der Wissenschaft von Schlaf und Traum. Lecture with film excerpts from her own work together with weekly newsreels and television reports.

Presented by Sabeth Buchmann and Mina Lunzer.

Sabeth Buchmann lives in Berlin and Vienna, she is an author, art historian and Professor for Modern and Postmodern Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Mina Lunzer lives in Vienna, she is an artist and freelance writer. She studied visual arts (film) and cultural studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the University of Sydney and the UdK Berlin. From October 2014 she will be on the staff of the doctoral college The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts of the University of Vienna. She has been working on a film history of sleep and dream research for several years.