Dreams and unconscious narratives are refracted through collective crises, offering a discourse on the interplay between myth, memory, and contemporary subjectivity. The films disrupt linear conceptions of time and self by interrogating the symbolic structures through which life is mediated. These works destabilize fixed categories of identity, proposing an exploration of existence that is perpetually in flux, shaped by the subconscious currents of cultural and environmental forces. (Boris Hadžija)
What happens when beauty is asleep? AURORA’S DREAM explores the collective unconscious during a period of contemporary crisis. Individual participants share their most vivid and personal dreams. The subconscious narratives visually intertwine with the turbulence of our present era, bringing archetypes and motifs from the Sleeping Beauty fairytale to the fore.
… >>>How do we perceive nature? Is it a thing to which we, humans, are external? Or are we all part of a mesh without center nor periphery? How can film transmit interrogations that might trigger possible transformation through an approach that is neither descriptive nor fantasque, but rather opts for the sensorial aspect of perception? Can an assembly of sounds and images invite us to perceive nature not as a thing but as a living entity endowed with sensitivity and agency?
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