GIGI WONG

In this innovative short film by Andrew Thomas Huang a Chinese American restaurant worker is visited by the deity of gay love—the Rabbit God—in his dreams.

Composed, performed, and produced by Andrew Braun, Guardians of Sleep Original Soundtrack is a collection of music based on material from the podcast of the same name.

RAIMONDO LANZA

Since March 2022, a Soviet-like martial law has been in effect in Russia punishing anti-war statements with a fifteen years prison sentence. The term “war” itself has been banned from public debate. In the absence of free speech, the truth is confined to the last place that remains inaccessible to power: dream life.

NATALEAH HUNTER-YOUNG

The dreams—and the spirit of an important bird—that guided South African visual artist Sethembile Msezane to her viral 2015 performance “Chapungu—The Day Rhodes Fell.”

KOSUKE OKAHARA

This award-winning short film is based on the photographer’s experiences of visiting Koza, Japan (officially Okinawa City) and how places and people revisit him in recurring dreams.

Santasil Mallik speaks with the artist Soumya Sankar Bose about his photographic practice, including the innovative ways he documents the inner worlds of his collaborators.

CHARMAINE LI

A conversation with London-based contemporary Korean artist Bongsu Park about how the tradition of dream exchange has shaped her artistic practice.

CONSTANTIN HOUY

The German-born Swiss artist and poet Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) is well-known for her involvement with the Surrealists. Less well-known is how strongly her art was inspired by her own dreams.

AYLIN KURYEL + AZIZ GÜZEL

Shot in the Turkish province of Izmir during lockdown, Aylin Kuryel’s 14-minute documentary captures life in crisis through dynamic transitions between public and private, inside and outside, personal and political. Accompanied by an essay by Aziz Güzel.

Amplifying the work of dreaming. In season one, we speak with people in the British capital about how the Covid-19 pandemic affected their dream-life.

RYAN SHUVERA

Plenty Coups, the great leader of the Mountain Crow Band, had many prophetic dreams and visions as a child. When he was a boy, he had a dream-vision about a chickadee which provided guidance for the Crow Nation in their relations with the American settlers. 

APARNA MISHRA TARC

Fatima dreams that she is falling from a ship. Magnus Wennman’s work explores what the testimonies of children can tell us about war’s impact.

A conversation with Amber Jacobs, head of Birkbeck’s Department of Psychosocial Studies, about her YouTube series, Telling Tales, maternal force, and the “cunning intelligence” that can be found in fairy tales and myth.

Martina Bacigalupo + Sharon Sliwinski

This series of video portraits offers an intimate encounter with a migrant community in Geneva, Switzerland. Foregrounding the life of the mind, the project highlights the importance of the imaginary realm and shows how human rights are intimately connected to our ways of seeing.

STEPHEN MAYES

Photojournalist, filmmaker, and human rights advocate, Tim Hetherington produced a series of photographs of sleeping U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. He was opening up his documentary practice to new forms reverie when he was killed while on assignment in April 2011.

AMY FREIER

As a young boy Henry James visited the Louvre and was awestruck by the vastness of its collections. Later, as he worked on a memoir of childhood, the Louvre returned as the scene of a nightmare. In this vision, the museum space paralleled the terrain of the unconscious, conjuring up the novelist's lifelong struggle with issues of mastery and control. 

CHRIS VANDERWEES

In this wide-ranging conversation, the co-founders of the 388, a Psychoanalytic Treatment Centre for Young Adult Psychotics in Québec City, discuss the development of their innovative program, which includes social, cultural, and artistic activities along with psychiatric and psychoanalytic forms of treatment.

ASTRID JAMAR

What can dreams tell us about transitional justice? Working with material from her own field diary, an emerging scholar reflects on the tension between her study of truth and reconciliation and the confusing reality that emerges when these ideals are put into practice in Rwanda and Burundi.

CHRIS VANDERWEES

Carl Jung and D.W. Winnicott both grappled with the problem of human aggression in their influential work. Although their positions about the source of this problem varied dramatically, in both cases these psychiatrists were visited by difficult dreams which spurred their ideas.

By LANA LIN

How can one respond creatively to loss and destruction? Before being diagnosed with breast cancer, Lana Lin dreamt she had a new internal organ. In the aftermath of treatment, she turned to artists like Audre Lorde, who faced similar bodily crises, and who had found ways to make something in the wake of devastation.  

LUCILLE ANGUS

Inspired by a 1952 clinical case study by Dorothy Baruch, Maurice Sendak's first children’s book tells the story of a young boy’s dream-quest, an adventure that involves answering seven questions given to him by a four-legged rooster. 

NOEL GLOVER

In April 2005, the French playright-poet-philosopher, Hélène Cixous had a dream in which she and her friend Jacques Derrida appeared as two footballing mice. Derrida had died just a few months prior and the dream inaugurates Cixous's tribute to the philosopher, Insister of Jacques Derrida.   

SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH

In my memory I want to locate the dream in childhood, in elementary, or perhaps middle, school. A dream about an abstract concept. A nightmare about the line.

MELISSA ADLER

In May 1947 Jorge Luis Borges—Argentinian poet, writer, librarian, and dreamer—published a story about a monster named Asterion. It is a tale that turns on a dream.

SHARON SLIWINSKI

During the First World War, a number of British poets wrote about their dreams as part of their treatment at Craiglockhart War Hospital for Neurasthenic Officers in Edinburgh, where they had been sent to recover from shell shock.

SHARON SLIWINSKI

After Hitler came to power in 1933, Charlotte Beradt, a Berlin-based journalist began secretly compiling a record of Berliner's dreams about the Nazi regime.