The Bureaucracy of Dreams
In ‘The Bureaucracy of Dreams’, I draw on Ismail Kadare’s The Palace of Dreams 1981, as a framework for examining how political systems shape the imagination. The film work considers the distance between utopian ideals and lived realities, and how that dislocation unsettles both public life and private thought. Its dream narrative sustains a surrealist poetics, offering a way to resist the damage dealt to the imagination by political realities.
The Bureaucracy of Dreams | 2024 | 22"
Full Duration: 3' 33” – Format: Digital HD – Aspect Ratio: 16:9 – Sound: Stereo - Source formats: H 264 | ProRes 422 HQ
Screenings and Panel Discussions:
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