A â â â review of Sleep (2023)
The Domestic Uncanny Jason Yuâs feature debut "Sleep" appears, at first encounter, to be a tightly wound domestic horror film about a husband who begins terror-sleepwalking after the birth of his first child. Yet the pictureâs true object of analysis is not sleep at all but the ideological labour demanded of the contemporary household. By staging the bedâcapitalist societyâs prescribed site of nightly ârecoveryââas a space of unmanaged excess, Yu transforms a genre premise into a demonstration of how social contradictions seep into private life and return, literally, in the middle of the night. Yu photographs the apartment like a



