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Aquarium

a tiny film of insomnia

In 2019, I was really struggling to sleep. I was living, alone for a while, in a fifth storey flat at the top of Lisboa, my life a bit upside down, before righting itself shortly after.

I made this one week when sleep was impossible. I found it the other day, and made it a little bit better… the original had suffered from being made by an insomniac.

So, here’s Aquarium, the director’s cut 2025, with Portuguese subtitles, because it’s the only other language I speak.

These days I sleep.

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