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The Dream of an Opium Fiend

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given wine, which he does not care for, and he is finally given some bottled beer and a glass, but he complains that the glass is too small and he gets a very large sized glass receptacle, into which his wife and maid servant pour the contents of the bottle. As he is about to drink the glass passes from his hand mysteriously, sailing through the room and out of the window to the moon…

The Dream of an Opium Fiend

5.4 1908
Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

Down on the banks of the Maroni River, little Derreck dreams of heroic warriors. He’s a member of the Wayana tribe in French Guyana. In this film, Derreck is not our only portal into another world. His sister Sylvana also dreams – of an impossible love, who belongs to a different tribe. Their grandmother Malilou takes us back to her youth in the 1950s. It seems that everyone wanders off now and again into a parallel, at times almost ghostly world. Whereas the youngest members of the tribe can still lose themselves in boundless flights of fantasy, the older generation contemplates more existential questions. How do dreams of the future relate to identity? What makes you a real Wayana?

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

6.0 2016
The Door

What is illusion and reality? Man and environment are changing. The inhabitants of a medium-sized city seek out an old abandoned area - here they are promised to be able to learn more about themselves - but each visitor has to pay an individual price. A strange doorman welcomes the seekers and hands them each a key tailored to them. The opening of the magical door finally heralds a journey. The room as a mirror of themselves. Confronted with your hidden longings and fears, the border to reality becomes increasingly blurred.

The Door

NR 2023
Swan Song

This was Carolina Lopez Caballero's graduation film at Farnham (now Surrey Institute of Art and Design), but has a strength and confidence of vision which is unusual in student work. The technique mixes three dimensional work, boiling watercolour, thick paint, ink and collage. The mark-making mixes roughness and calligraphic grace. The film tells a dreamlike story of a king who is attracted to the singing of a mysterious woman. He is disappointed when she turns out to have the head and neck of a swan and finds it difficult to fit into her new role as Queen.

Swan Song

NR 1992