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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.
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00:12From the desire to dream comes the thirst for and love of the cinema.
00:22For lack of the spontaneous adventure, which our eyelids let escape on wakening.
00:30We go into the dark cinemas to find artificial dreams.
00:39And perhaps the stimulus capable of peopling our empty nights.
00:46I would like a filmmaker to fall in love with this idea.
01:00And so many did, from the birth of cinema onwards.
01:11These early silent directors tried to achieve an anilic or dreamlike impact in their films.
01:18By stimulating a sensation similar to that of the sleeping dreamer.
01:46They use cinematic devices to activate the sensory-motor centers in the viewer's mind.
01:54They use cinematic devices to activate the sensory-motor centers in the viewer's mind.
01:54Thereby producing kinesthesia.
01:58"... może ada yang terakhir...
01:58Or a salah satu, not onlyâyoh...
02:01Or...
02:02B Scarabock ...
02:02...
02:02...
02:03You
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