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.
Set in a Medieval town, the film has a theatrical quality, as the behaviours and actions of the characters are exaggerated almost to the point of satire. Nevertheless, its relatively dark and heavy plot yields over-the-top expressions from the actors. There is little dialogue as the story opens: a mother is seen tending to her sick daughter, whom she is then told must be sacrificed to the forest. The viewers patiently but curiously watch the mother perform healing rituals with objects like egg shells, dried plants and twigs–also recurring in the installation–until the daughter mysteriously disappears.
A man struggling to come to terms with the sudden death of his girlfriend in an accident six months prior signs up for a sleep trial that allows him to reconstruct his life with her through the use of lucid dreams.
A man suffering from insomnia is tricked into buying a drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives, experiences, stories and musings of protagonists spanning ten countries and five continents.
Thanatos is a dark psychological thriller about lucid dreaming.
Unfulfilled by his day-to-day life, an 18-year-old homebody copes with social anxiety by living the life of his dreams, in his dreams.
A doctor with the ability to visit people's dreams helps a young woman confront the terrifying reality of her nightmare
Socially isolated dream-programmer Norman is desperately and secretly in love with his new boss, Claudia. When promoted to program a dream for a high profile client, Norman inadvertently bungles the operation and is forced to share his own fantasy dream involving Claudia. When the lines between dream and reality begin to blur, Norman questions if he is in fact dreaming or is stuck in his client's dream.
Judah is a young man with a condition - he dreams while he's still awake. His imagination makes it difficult for him to process the loss of an important person in his life, so when his cousin contacts him with a ridiculous scheme to get at the riches of their eccentric Uncle Airmid who has disappeared, Judah agrees to go along with it.
Here the protagonist uses the concept of lucid dreaming and accidentally solves his dilemma.
Bianca an emotionally unstable office worker is asked by a mysterious client to deliver documents insisting she must deliver them herself in person. On her arrival Bianca is kidnapped. Her captor, leader of a cult, drugs Bianca whilst tormenting her with continuous relentless indoctrination, forcing Bianca her to question the veracity of her memories, even those most life forming, as a victim of child abuse.
A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.
In the not too distant future a new device allows for cooperative dreaming. A man sees hope with this device and uses this it to reconnect with his wife who lies unconscious in a coma.
A young teenager experiences a life-changing lucid dream.
A psychadelic mental breakdown occurs. The lights are bright, the colours vivid, the images blurred, the mind absent.
Living Still follows protagonist Kyle on his trip through lucid dreaming and love on the onset of his beginning college years. Abstract, symbolic and a visceral experience, Living Still is a haunting, profound portrayal of the journey(s) we take in our lives. What pathway will you follow?