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BAFTA and Grierson award-winning filmmaker Gerald Fox celebrates the centenary of the 'dream film' in cinema and its years of flowering during the silent film period in this kaleidoscopic, stylised documentary.KINAESTHESIA explores the world of dreams in silent cinema, putting the audience at the centre of the journey. This unique film tells the story of the birth of cinema and its experimental early decades, and the way in which pioneering silent film directors created thrilling sequences and entire films that mirrored the very way we dream.
Fox’s lyrical, inventive documentary follows the legendary film studies professor at Harvard, Vlada Petric who undertakes his own dreamlike odyssey through disparate landscapes, odd encounters, and spellbinding film clips.
Exploring scenes from French impressionism (such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir), German Expressionism (F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang), Soviet montage (Sergei Eisenstein, Oleksandr Dovzhenko), the avant-garde (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, Maya Deren) and popular silent comedy (Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton), Petric illustrates his theory that these early innovators used all the available devices of cinema to produce sequences that activated the sensory-motor centres in the brain producing Kinaesthesia (the sensation of movement) – just like dreaming.
Accompanied by a stunning, newly composed musical score, Fox’s accessible and often humorous film allows audiences to have the same mesmerising cinematic experience that audiences had all those years ago, consumed by the imaginative power of slow-motion, double exposures, expressionistic lighting, and dynamic montage.
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