Movie Details
Original Language:English
Awake But Dreaming
DirectorKerry Laitala
8 min
Plot
This completely hand processed 16mm film was shot in the Hirschgang Oberer an extended arched hallway at the Akademie Schloss Solitude where I was in residence intermittently from 19982001 Awake but Dreaming recreates a sense of an endless cyclical dreamscape that is conjured up from the deep recesses of the imagination The images are coupled with a mysterious soundtrack producing uncanny associations the flapping of wings shrill cries of birds a revolver fired off following unseen footsteps A disembodied hovering presence evokes a menace that is intimated through the sonorous resonance but never manifests itself The dreamer never reaches the apex of consciousness only lingers repeatedly in the periphery of alchemically enhanced light and shadow
