Dont Go Back to Sleep (2014)

Dont Go Back to Sleep is a an experimental narrative film a haunted tragicomedy that functions as much as a symbolic meditation on citizen resilience as a metaphor for the violence of the state and the First Worlds rapacious impact on the earth driving the planet itself towards impending death Shot in Kansas City Missouri in newly built homes left uninhabited and unfinished in the economic crash Dont Go Back to Sleep follows roving groups of frontline emergency workers adrift in nearly empty endtimes urban and suburban landscapes Squatting empty suburban developments and luxury highrises depressed with the aura of so many displaced by the US housing market catastrophe nurses and doctors establish makeshift treatment centers within the architectural mundane fixtures and countertops carpet pads and exposed wiring fireplaces and crown molding As they perform haphazard triage mostly on each other we realize they may be the only survivors against a dangerous State