They Dream in My Bones

They Dream in My Bones - Insemnopedy II is a transfixing meditation and a stirring experiential proposition that explores what fabric might bind the physical and metaphysical, and how to extract dreams from an unknown skeleton. This fictional circumstance tells the story of Roderick Norman, a researcher in onirogenetics — the science he founded — and opens up the intersection of the physical and the dreamworld, of gender and biology, and of an individual body and a symbiotic microbiome. A dreamy, minimalist scientific fable rendered in black and white, They Dream in My Bones incorporates the viscerality of textile dynamics with 3D drawings and images shot with a traditional camera. The resulting virtual reality film allows us to explore the metamorphosis of a skeleton at the frontier of gender and the human.

Official Selection : Sundance New Frontier 2022 Dok Leipzig 2021

Author, Director, Writer, Artistic Direction, Production Designer : Faye Formisano Creative technologist/3D Animation : Ludovic De Oliveira Director of Photography : Victor Zébo Voices over : Julian Eggerickx, Kendra McLaughlin Voice Synthesis : Olivier Pasquet (Ircam) Assistant Director : Cindy Coutant Production and Costume Design Assistant : Alice Goudon Music : Foudre ! (Nahal Recordings Label) Boom operator : Guillaume LaSalle (Ispra) Sound Editor : Jérôme Petit Foley : Christophe Burdet Sound Mix and Spatialization VR : Thomas Rouvillain (Next Sound Lab) Sound recordist : Blandine Tourneux Scenario consultant : Jean-Claude Taki Artistic support : Emanuele Coccia et Bertrand Mandico Head of Distribution : Natalia Trebik Digital art coordinator : Eric Prigent Production Manager : Estelle Bénazet Production : Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains Co-production : Caza d’Oro - International Contemporary Art Center

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