SOMNIA & INSOMNIA

Upcoming - Special vinyl edition of the OST by composer and musician Goodbye Ivan of the 2 films, SOMNIA (2023) & INSOMNIA (2024), from filmmaker and photographer Pascal Greco.
His new film INSOMNIA will only be available via a QR-code in the vinyl.

“SOMNIA is like a fever dream and the musical material of the film is a marvel of frightening melancholy.”
Le Temps

"SOMNIA has a dimension that is as powerful as it is poetic.”
MAGMAH

"Both films have a universe that is at once dreamlike, dark, melancholic and disturbing. Contemplative, suspended, ethereal, the contribution of Goodbye Ivan goes far beyond the sound illustration. The notes of one and the images of the other intermingle and intertwine as rarely.”
Tribune de Genève

"Short films? Performance? Dance? Musical project? SOMNIA / INSOMNIA is a little bit of all that, but also far more than the sum of its parts. Pascal Greco’s two films stage bodies whose ‘diversities are magnified’—meaning atypical physiques that prove that bodies in movement do not need to conform to the reductive aesthetic constraints of our ultra-standardized times to be beautiful and fascinating. An intense and original cinematic object, SOMNIA is accompanied by a soundtrack by Goodbye Ivan. The multi-instrumentalist musician composed a strangely beautiful score that complements the images and extends this timeless sensory experience. INSOMNIA is what one might call a “B-side,” made from unused footage from the first part. This new short film favors a tight edit that shows, among other things, bodies and skin in close-up. A disturbing and immersive visual experience, a body in harmony where movement embraces the melody."
— La Liberté


The starting point of the second film - side B - INSOMNIA
”In 2023, the "carte blanche" offered by the MAH - Museum of art and history Geneva to filmmaker Pascal Greco highlights the artist's original take on our reality, with the bodies and spaces we think we know so well. SOMNIA, an unusual show, combining cinema and music, for which the director chose to collaborate with composer Goodbye Ivan.

In 2024, this collaboration gave rise, from the numerous unused rushes, to a “side B”, a second short film, INSOMNIA, in which Pascal Greco favors a montage of close-up shots, letting the camera “caress” the skin of a sculpture, a naked body or the stone of a 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 as sensual as it is dreamlike. The music is still by Goodbye Ivan, who has also composed a “side B”, rearranging some of SOMNIA's themes acoustically.”

A “side B” to be discovered with the release of a vinyl album, with labels Urgence Disk and Chambre Noire, by Goodbye Ivan & Pascal Greco, including the soundtracks of both with the film INSOMNIA only available via a QR-code in the vinyl.

First publication of a vinyl for Chambre Noire, copublished with the label Urgence Disk.
// 02.12.2024 - Switzerland
// 15.09.2025 - Europe

SOMNIA & INSOMNIA
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