Sleeping With Frank shows a slice of a morning in Queens, NY. A couple readies for the day.
Wake-up, get dressed, eat breakfast. The tableaus are familiar: cozy, rote, intimate and distant. Dance and choreographed gestures reveal a potent underbelly to the lacquer of a domestic normalcy.
Sleeping with Frank seeks to create a new vernacular between the camera and dance. It places dance and "choreographed gesture" at the nucleus of the film narrative, instead of the more familiar dance placement - a hyper-real sequence most common in musicals that is a beat removed from the storyline. Using the proximity of the camera and editing's capacity for time-play, this film explores the ways in which dance can be integral to a narrative trajectory.
This film turns the commonplace visceral, infusing the rote tasks of day-to-day with a splashy relevance. It paves ground for further inquisitions into such dismantling: how to reinvent the anatomy of storytelling.