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Oniric

Who would you be if you couldn’t remember yourself? ONÍRICO is a film about losing, searching, and letting go of a loved one and oneself. It explores the boundary between reality and dream, the desire to accompany someone whom you can no longer accompany. It’s a gentle journey through waves, drifting like time itself. Yet, memories blur at the edge of perception. It’s the final journey, stepping into the world beyond the eyes. ONÍRICO visualizes the sensation of drifting on a river merging into another reality. A reality without memories, without tomorrow, a path into nothingness. The film is a farewell letter to Leniko Sennoma’s grandmother, who suffered from dementia and passed away.

  • Leniko Sennoma
    Director
  • Salva Tinajero
    Director
  • Leniko Sennoma
    Writer
  • Salva Tinajero
    Writer
  • Leniko Sennoma
    Producer
  • Salva Tinajero
    Producer
  • Leniko Sennoma
    Key Cast
  • Salva Tinajero
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Onírico
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 8, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    400 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Universität der Künste
  • Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
    Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
    Germany
    May 17, 2020
    World Premier
    Open Screening
Director Biography - Leniko Sennoma, Salva Tinajero

Leniko Sennoma’s main artistic mediums are film and installation. They comple-ted their studies in fine arts, philosophy, and pedagogy at UdK/FU Berlin in 2020, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree and finished their Master (Meisterschü-ler:in) in Fine Arts at UdK Berlin in 2024. Sennoma's work explores the bound-aries between reality and dream, with a focus on social justice and intersec-tional feminism. They combine techniques of lucid dreaming and archetypical symbolism to question the status quo of information society. Their art is an on-going search for possibilities of collective liberation, the dismantling of systemic oppression, and the creation of political collaboration. By developing an audio-visual-metaphorical language that works with the synchresis of image, sound, and material aesthetics, they create hypnotic environments that appear simul-taneously gentle and eerie. Influenced by their studies in epistemology, theo-retical, feministic, analytical philosophy and film theory, their works play with the consciousness of the viewer, generating a broad spectrum of associations, emotions and contrasts. Sennoma's video/installations and short films have been shown in numerous galleries, museums and festivals in and outside Euro-pe, including Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Gallery 062 Chicaga USA, Gallery SA-KURA Nagoya Japan and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, ONÍRICO, 2019.

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