Sleep Furiously

The documentary is about a small farming community in mid Wales. This is the place where the director’s parents, both refugees, found a home for themselves. Small scale farming is disappearing, and the landscape and the population are changing fast with it. The generation that knew the world before machines is thinning out. The film tells that loss not as a lament but by watching the daily work. The mobile library, the closing of the school, the garden competition and the lambing all sit in the same flow. Gideon Koppel also draws his account from his conversations with the writer Peter Handke. What it sets side by side are endings and beginnings. Gideon Koppel’s ninety four minute British documentary was completed in 2008.