Dream Sequence: Stasis

A nonverbal film about dissociation, dreams, and memories. Directed, produced, filmed, and edited by Adam E. Stone. Additional cinematography by Hong Zhou. Filmed in New Taipei City, Taiwan; Osaka, Japan; Sapporo, Japan; United States. Total run time, including credits: 2 minutes, 40 seconds. Various formats, all with open or closed captions, are available upon request. Select "CC" button on Vimeo player for English-language closed captions that describe the nonverbal audio.

  • Adam E Stone
    Director
  • Adam E Stone
    Producer
  • Adam E Stone
    Cinematographer
  • Hong Zhou
    Additional Cinematographer
  • Adam E Stone
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    United States, United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, Japan, Taiwan, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • DELETE TV
    Vienna, Austria
    Austria
    May 21, 2025
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival (Summer Screenings 2025)
    Toronto, Ontario (online)
    Canada
    June 14, 2025
    Semi-Finalist
  • Quantum Intimacies (Millennium Film Workshop)
    Brooklyn, New York
    United States
    June 20, 2025
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Adam E Stone

Adam E. Stone's latest feature film is the poetic essay film "Atmospheric Marginalia" (2022). His films have been featured at over 225 prominent, well-curated festivals worldwide, and have won numerous awards. Short films (poem, essay, or nonverbal) include "The Idealist" (2025), "Dream Sequence: Stasis" (2025), "Bridge" (2024), "form" (2024), "as the night" (2023), "Tyranny of the Unafflicted" (2023), "If Any" (2021), "Awake" (2021), "Specks and Flashes" (2020), "Elegy for Unfinished Lives" (2020), "an entombing(dis)entombing" (2020), "Declarations" (2019), and "Gods Die Too" (2018). Previous short dance films include "Do Not Forget the Lost" (2019), "Summer Friend: A Ballet Film" (2016), "Resting Places: A Ballet Film" (2015), and "Janet: A Silent Ballet Film" (2014). He also is the writer, producer, and co-director of the feature-length fictional essay film "Abstractly You Loved Me" (2013), and is one of the co-producers of, and conducted many of the interviews for, two feature-length documentaries: "Miss Fury and the Lost Legacy of Tarpé Mills" (2024), and "Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story" (DVD 2019). In 2012, Stone wrote and produced the spoken-word ballet "A Life Unhappening," which is about the impact of one woman's Alzheimer's disease on three generations of her family. In 2010, he wrote, directed, and produced the DVD novel "Cache Girl Saves the World: A Novel in Visions." He is also the author of three conventional print novels: "Xamon Song" (2006), "Kingston Fugue" (2007), and "The New Harmonies" (2009).

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