You Are Awake

Based on the story of a strange 'sleeping plague' which afflicted a village in Kazakhstan in 2013, this beautiful but strange four-minute short from Colonel Blimp director Pedro Martin-Calero features a collection of people who are struck down by a form of narcolepsy which means they could fall asleep, for an undefined period of time, at any moment.

A strange, haunting feeling pervades the film, and the clinical but poetic voiceover only adds to the sense of bewilderment.