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Dream

In a mountain landscape, a woman lies asleep on a bench.
Is she dreaming — or already elsewhere?
Around her, fragments of cemetery and church drift through the image.
Between dream and disappearance, reality begins to waver.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Songe
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 26 seconds
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Christophe Schaeffer

Christophe Schaeffer is a French multidisciplinary artist — writer, poet, philosopher (PhD), visual artist, and lighting designer. His work spans theatre, contemporary dance, visual arts, music, and cinema, exploring perception, time, and the fragile boundaries between image and presence.
Since 2022, he has developed a body of experimental films extending his research into moving images. His cinematic practice revolves around duration, slowness, and the vibration of reality, often using extreme slow motion, long focal lengths, and mobile phone cinematography.
His films have been presented in international festivals and artistic contexts, and pursue a form of poetic cinema of attention, where images remain inhabited by gesture, silence, and lived experience.

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Director Statement

Dream begins with an uncertain image. What first appears as part of the mountain landscape gradually reveals the presence of a body lying on a bench. For a moment, the figure seems almost absorbed by the surroundings, as if the body itself had become part of the landscape.
From this still image, other fragments emerge: a cemetery, a church, drifting presences that may belong to memory, dream, or anticipation. The film does not attempt to resolve their meaning; it simply allows these images to coexist within a contemplative space.
A floating musical texture, derived from a piece by Erik Satie and subtly transformed, accompanies the image. Its suspended quality reinforces the sensation of drifting between waking and dreaming.
Through slowness and attention, the film seeks to hold this fragile threshold where perception hesitates — the moment when reality begins to waver and the image becomes a place of quiet contemplation.