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It’s the end of term one at Vancouver Film School, and a short video project has been completed, titled Dream Sequences.

The subject matter is dreams and reality.

Here’s a little background story:

I was traveling in China a few years ago seeing some of the sights off the main tourist routes.  My path merged with a wonderful lady from Australia, and we journeyed together for several days.  We had interesting discussions about the sites we visited, and had non-stop laughter and emotional connection throughout our time together…  and then I woke up.  The entire experience was a dream.  Does the fact that this chance encounter in Asia was not ‘real’ in this world make the experience any less valid?  The lessons learned from the dream are the same as they would be if it were real.  I wonder if one day, I’ll meet the lady, perhaps somewhere else in the world, and she’ll have a shared memory of the dream?  Would we recognize each other?

The subject matter of the film asks questions about the relative meaning of being awake versus the meaning of being in a dream state. At what point are we fully awake? What are the intermediary states? Wikipedia might have factual answers, but at this moment, I prefer the questions.

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Returning to study for one year is turning out to be a positive experience, not only for technical skill development, but also for the open opportunities to produce more theoretically and conceptually based design and art work.

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