A short experimental film about the strange world of dreams — places we've never been, faces we've never seen, and memories that somehow feel real.
The film explores the idea that dreams don't follow the logic of stories. They move through fragments, emotions, places, and images, creating something we understand only while we're inside them. The narration takes the form of a quiet documentary, gradually moving from the familiar to the unsettling.
For the visuals, I drew inspiration from artworks in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access collection, using them as fragments of this dreamlike world. I then used FLORA to bring the still artworks to life with subtle motion while preserving their original character and composition.
The result is a film that sits somewhere between a documentary, a memory, and a dream.
Artwork inspirations:
- General View of Castle Ruins and of The Village of Saint
- I'll pretend to be asleep
- The Veteran in a New Field
- Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
- A Meadow Bordered by Trees
- Collar'd Pork
- La Rêvuse (The Dream)
- Snake
- Path Through a Village
- The incomparable somnabulist
- Daniel Crommelin Verplanck
- Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
- Two Men Contemplating the Moon
- Singing Bird on a Branch
