Insomnia
1981, English. Directed by Fred Worden.
“INSOMNIA is the most minimal and self-referential of Worden’s films. It consists entirely of punched holes in black leader. The fractal reference is secured spatially by using punches of two different sizes, and temporally by the distribution of the punches along the strip of leader. In some ways this is Worden’s purest pattern film. We are presented only with a pattern of black and white. There is no imagery to compete for our attention. But somehow we see the film as representational. The white struggles against the black in an attempt to pour into the foreground. It is as if the ancient cosmology were true: The stars are holes in the canopy that shrouds the earth. We yearn to leave the world of darkness and appearance for the world of reality and light on the other side.” —Dale Jamieson
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Insomnia runs 5 minutes (0h 5m).
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Insomnia isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1981. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Insomnia?
Insomnia (1981) was directed by Fred Worden.