Lame Dream Dispatch
2016 · 6m
Directed by Chris Collins
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, melancholic
A dispatch from the territory between ambition and inertia — an experimental short form essay on the small indignities of wanting more.
Picked by Felix
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Calling your film a 'Lame Dream Dispatch' is a level of self-aware defeatism I find genuinely charming — experimental, short, uploaded to the internet like a message in a bottle.
Six minutes of 'selections from the collective lame dream journal' — the title does heavy work and Chris Collins is consistent, but the synopsis is so thin I can only trust the lo-fi-Chris-Marker reach.
Six-minute essay short — 'selections from the collective lame dream journal' is the only description. The title earns a faint smile but the page gives me almost nothing to work with.