In 2004, the Australian Film Commission funded this experimental project, resulting in the five short films you see below.

The public were invited to send in descriptions of recent dreams. I took the dream I liked best and filmed it. We then invited people to watch the film and use incubation techniques to see if the film could be used to influence subsequent dreams. The public sent in their resulting dreams, and again I took one and made it into a film. This continued for ten weeks, with one week of film-making followed by one week of dreaming, until five films were completed.

It was a very low-budget project, with a crew of two or three at any one time, and extremely limited time. Despite this, the films were popular, and we received thousands of dream responses each week.

Some may argue that other people's dreams are meaningless and boring, and it could also be said that the resulting dreams showed little influence from earlier dreams. I hope, however, that we managed to capture some sense of what it's like to be in the middle of a dream that you believe to be real.

Christopher Kenworthy

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