Lucid Dreams2020

Halina Kliem’s newest film feels like a lucid dream in the way it’s incredibly vivid and real while remaining dreamlike. As the digital phrases we’ve become too familiar with wittily dance across the screen we’re reminded of the importance of connecting. The depth of the film’s consciousness like a body of water at first frightens me until I dive in and am cradled back to dreaming. In the end, I lay awake wondering if I was ever really asleep. – Jordan Richman, Curator, and Writer for Dazed, Fantastic Man, and Pin-up Magazin

Where can we get together? Set amid a societal crisis, Lucid Dreams is a six minute Greek tragedy from a second-person point of view without spectacular sets, but the actions of the main characters are central to the resolution of the public conflict. It is a film about democracy, the importance of human connection, and the capability of change. The main characters are virtually somewhere between New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin and explore a new relationship to duration and intimacy, strange dreams, and cooperative
visions.