(72 Min TRT)
Enter The Dream State. Shared Dreams, Lucid Dreams, Unattainable Dreams, Waking Dreams. These Video Poems Are Portals Into Ourselves And Others Where New Associations And Unexpected Connections Are Crafted. We Are Suspended In The Gravity Of These Pieces, Our Feet Never Quite Touching Solid Ground As Our Emotional Core Soars. Using Erasure, Installation, Tableaux, Anthropomorphism, And Live Music, This Showcase Traverses The Conscious, Unconscious, And Subconscious To Imagine The Multitude Of Pathways Through Reality. What Will We Wake Up To?

Films In This Program:

Someone You Once Saw In A Dream

US Premiere!

Someone You Once Saw In A Dream Is An Oneiric Feminist Surrealist Film That Acts As A Poetic Metaphor For The Futility Of Feminine Beauty Standards, While The Presence Of Lurking Men Permeate The Film’s Quaint Athletics.

(Eyrún Úa, Iceland, 2023, 3 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

Birdie's Dream

World Premiere!
When And How Do We Get To The End Of Something? How Do We Make The Decision To Change? How Does It Feel When It’s Time To Go? A Meditative Video-Poem On Leaving, Change And The Flow Of Time.(Melisa Yağmur Saydı, Türkiye, 2022, 3 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text)

Dear Ceiling

West Coast Premiere!
A Love Letter From The Floor To The Ceiling Spelled Out In Stop-Motion Text, Dear Ceiling Is A Playful Invitation To Imagine That The Architecture Around Us Is As Full Of Spiritual And Libidinous Yearning As We Are.
(Sarah Legow, Portugal, 2022, 1 Min, In English With Stop-Motion Animated English Text)

Your Dream Is My Dream

World Premiere!
We Are One And We All Dream The Same Dreams. Through A Chorus Of Reoccurring Dreams Tracing Impossibility, Unpreparedness, Self-Consciousness, And Loss, Your Dream Is My Dream Explores Ancestral Memory, Shared Identity And The Collective Unconscious.
(Marina Sagona, US, 2023, 17 Min, In English & Italian With English Subtitles And Hardcoded English Text)

Sweep Dreams

US Premiere!
A 7-Minute Animated Dream Of Displacement And Apocalypse.
(Directors: E.T. Russian & Edward Mast, Poet: Edward Mast, US, 2023, 7 Min, In English With English Captions)
This Was Meant To Be For Nora
An Animated Interpretation Of “This Was Meant To Be For Nora” By Junie Desil, Based On A Dream About Jimi Hendrix And His Grandmother, Nora Hendrix, Who Was A Community Leader In Hogan’s Alley In The Strathcona Neighbourhood Of Vancouver.
(Directors: Deanne Angelina Emery, Carola Campa Garcia, Luna Davies, Emilio Terrazas Rocha, Rachel Christina Kearney, Lingjun Mi & Mingyang Pan, Poet:  Junie Desil, Canada, 2023, 3 Min, In English With English Subtitles

Antipodes

US Premiere!
Inspired By A Poem Of The Same Name, This Videopoetry Work Immerses Viewers In A World Where Passion And Friendship Intertwine To Overcome Life’s Challenges.
(Directors: Elena Motiejunaite & Lyja Maknaviciute, Poet: Elena Motiejunaite, Lithuania, 2023, 4 Min, In Lithuanian With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

Healing Queen: Protect It

US Premiere!
What Happens When A Healing Queen Faces The Depth Of Heartbreak?
(Pauline Raybaud, Belgium, 2023, 4 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

Build Me A Cottage (Constroi Uma Casinha)

World Premiere!
Video Poem Made In An Abandoned Wool Factory In Portugal, Based On A Poem Of Fernado Pessoa.
(Pat Van Boeckel, Netherlands, 2020, 4 Min, In Portuguese With Hardcoded English Subtitles)

We Are Not Familiar With A Generation That Has No Understanding Of Sadness

US Premiere!
We Are Not Familiar With A Generation That Has No Understanding Of Sadness Constructs A Narrative Around The Artists’ Fundamental Research On The Mimeograph. By Using Significant Political Texts And Transcripts From History As A Reference Point, Against This Historical Background, They Reflect Upon The Contemporary Situation In Türkiye. In Affinity With Previous Generations, Who Are Saddened By The Perished Dreams And Ideals, They Search For Agency Under Despotism—Attempting To Negotiate Their Elusive Position Between Two Extremes Of Utopian Escapism And Revolutionary Struggle As Recourse To Estrangement.
(Fatma Belkıs, İz Öztat, Nihan Somay, Özgür Atlagan, Türkiye, 2018, 8 Min, In Turkish With Hardcoded English Subtitles And Hardcoded English Text)

Moved Before Swallowed

World Premiere!
Moved Before Swallowed Is An Erasure Of Jeff Noon’s 1993 Science Fiction Novel, Vurt, And The 1985 BBC Documentary, Sea Snakes: Friend Or Foe, Narrated By David Attenborough.(Daniel Carter, US, 2024, 2 Min, In English With Hardcoded English Text

Stormers (Fırtına)

US Premiere!
In Stormers, The Dynamic Between Two People In A Relationship Begins To Shift When A Third Person Arrives Into Their Shared Life.
(Esme Madra, Türkiye, 2022, 17 Min, In Turkish With English Subtitles.

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