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The Guilty Sleep, filmed during more than 75 overnight ride-along shifts with the police, illuminates urgent issues related to the current state of policing. It's a composed collage of raw, slow paced, and evocative imagery and sounds that frame polarities such as justice/injustice, observer/observed, confined/free, power/disempowered, and innocence/guilt. The video highlights the landscape behind these dualities and focuses on their complex relationship to one another.

Erik Levine was born in Los Angeles, California in 1960. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, most recently at Ludwig Forum Aachen with a solo survey exhibition of his videos from the past 15 years. His work includes video, sculpture, and drawings, and is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Des Moines Art Center, among several others. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pollock–Krasner Foundation awards. In addition, he’s received two grants each from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as grants from Awards in the Visual Arts, Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.