Dreaming Under Capitalism

We know what labour wreaks on the body but what less visible imprint does it leave on the unconscious The nights of twelve dreamers sometimes recounted in front of the camera sometimes with a voiceover that accompanies shots of office buildings or urban worksites reveal how the capitalist system invades the modernday psyche Long shots of edifices with smooth surfaces and sheer edges instil a deceptive gentleness Zombies corpses mummies ghosts skulls sliced open like an egg and emptied by spoonfuls The images follow one after the other no two alike but the editing organises a gradation towards the vampirism and an insidious passage from night to day from dreams to real working life