SOMNIA and INSOMNIA

In 2023, the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) in Geneva gave Greco carte blanche to make SOMNIA, a film featuring bodies of magnified diversity, moving and dancing in the MAH building, transformed into a sublime haunted vessel travelling out of time. The original music, written for organ, piano and percussion, is composed by Goodbye Ivan.
In 2024, using the many unused rushes, Greco made a “B side”, a second short film, INSOMNIA, in which he favoured a montage of close up shots, where the camera “caresses” the skin, whether that of a sculpture, a naked body, or the stone of the building. The image, which alternates between near darkness, saturated light, and whitish tones, works in perfect symbiosis with the hushed piano melodies, creating an atmosphere that is as sensual as it is dreamlike. The music is again by Goodbye Ivan, who has also composed a B-side by rearranging some of SOMNIA’s themes acoustically.
To coincide with the screening, Goodbye Ivan and Greco will be releasing a vinyl album (Urgence Disk and Chambre Noire label) featuring the soundtracks to the two films and a QR code for viewing INSOMNIA.

→ Second screening on Monday 28.10 at 6.30 pm at the Cinématographe, Lausanne