| Jalal Toufic |
 The Sleep of Reason. This Blood Spilled in My Veins, 2002 The video The Sleep of Reason. This Blood Spilled in My Veins documents the ritual slaughter of two cows and two sheep, which Jalal Toufic sets in direct contrast to sequences of people sleeping. "The organic dying of a (resurrectable) human is as nothing compared to that of an animal, exemplarily of a bull in a corrida; the only phenomenon that equals in intensity is the resurrection of a human...," so Toufic comments. Attempting a religious exaltation and glorious fulfilment of basic existence through rituals of penitence, martyrdom and sacrificial death in the religious traditions of Islam are the central motifs of his literary and philosophical texts and films. Jalal Toufic, * 1962 Beirut (RL), lives and works in Beirut (RL)  Jalal Toufic, The Sleep of Reason. This Blood Spilled in My Veins, 2002video (colour, sound) 32 min., loop courtesy Jalal Toufic
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