Vigilia

Dreams and Nightmares journeys into the human subconscious. Peering under the brain's mysterious veil, the idea that dreams send clues and warnings from another dimension is examined in detail.

An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.

Deep in the heart of the Auvergne volcanoes, two deities, Mélie and Zephyr, live a serene existence until the arrival of Anthéa, a mysterious young woman. Enchanted by Anthéa's magnetic aura, Mélie embarks with her on a journey of liberation and passion through wild landscapes.

A couple wake from sleep and discuss their dreams but the more they talk, the more reality starts to skew around them.

The aviation company for which Ricardo works gives a secretary a trip to Peru.

An AI takes millions of inputs and rehashes them into something semi-new. The same thing human brain does when sleeping. Humans call it "dreams".

An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The spheres drift in space while changing shapes and come back down to another setting, which eventually becomes more fantastical and symbolic than the opening one. The soundtrack has a jazz slant, with an ensemble of four saxophones and synthetic sound (i.e. sound created by drawing directly on the soundtrack).

A young man who claims to work in an office job must accept the consequences when his lie is discovered by his father who visited him in Jakarta.

Two aging New England clammers bicker about how to live out their twilight years, with only one of the brothers willing to risk life and limb on a dream. Free on Vimeo!

Violet, a piano player with rising anxiety and insomnia, finds herself struggling to distinguish her vivid dreams from reality.

A boy from a humble background pines to own a bicycle.

What was not in the dream

SHIFTING VISIONS is a video essay that revolves around the transition between the different stages of human consciousness. From the most intense state of full attention to the most abstract and dreamlike state, passing through all its nuances. We know that the mind remains a mystery to science, but, through combining neuroscientific theory and personal perceptions, we represent these mental dynamics transferred to images, sounds and metaphors. We thoroughly analyse each of these stages to translate concepts and create audiovisual imaginaries through symbolic mental limbos. A piece that drags the viewer on an inner journey to their own lucidity.

Set in a boring and bureaucratic version of NYC, Izumi and Alex go about their mundane existences while quietly refusing to give into mandates of the new dystopian society – namely undergoing a surgical treatment that renders the brain incapable of dreaming.

Two segments (“Thanksgiving Nightmare” and “Thanksgiving Dreams”) and several mini segments explore the traditions, fun, and excitement of the holiday of Thanksgiving.

Under the Moonlight

Dåv experiences a lucid dream about a better life.

On the eve of the wedding of an old flame, a young man must come to terms with every woman he has ever loved and lost. No sleep tonight.