The gilded world of the daydreamer: An afternoon of short films

The gilded world of the daydreamer: An afternoon of short films

Saturday March 23rd, 4-6pm

Screening: Angela Brennan, Mel Deerson, Daina Krumins, Ev Morris, Eileen Myles, Labi Siffre, Peter Waples-Crowe. Organised by Mel Deerson.

A film night of short films and music videos, all following a kind of playful, dreamy logic, full of desirous possibility. 

The screening draws on José Esteban Muñoz’ description of daydreaming as “imaging another life”. Thinking through philosopher Ernst Bloch’s ideas, Munoz writes of daydreaming as “doing the work of imaging another life, another time, another place - a version of heaven on earth that is not simply denial or distraction but a communicative and collective mode of transport that helps one think of another place where our Eros is not conscripted in the fashion that civilisation demands.” 

Image: 

The Trip, Eileen Myles. 2019. Made with support from the Poetry Foundation; runtime: 17 minutes; shot on super 8mm film. 
Partial Credits:
Written, Directed and Voice by Eileen Myles
Produced, Shot and Edited by David Fenster
Music: Mark So
Puppeteers: Britt Mazurek & Emma Rogers