Your Dream is my Dream

Your Dream is my Dream is a video about ancestral memory, shared identity and the collective unconscious.
According to C. G. Jung we are all born with common patterns and ancestral memories, that he calls archetypes, that are the exact same ones throughout lands and cultures.

These memories and the collective unconscious manifest itself mainly through art and dreams, particularly reoccurring dreams, that with minimal variations are indeed the same for all of us.

We are all connected and somehow we all dream the same dreams.

The chorus of reoccurring dreams in Your Dream is My Dream can be traced back to four main categories - impossibility, unpreparedness, self-consciousness and loss.

Following a specific and different logic for each category, subtitles give additional body to the voices, both in Italian and in English.

  • Marina Sagona
    Director
    COUSCOUS, Stabat Mater
  • Marina Sagona
    Writer
    COUSCOUS, Stabat Mater
  • Marina Sagona
    Producer
    COUSCOUS, Stabat Mater
  • Elliot Aguilar
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Lucianella Cafagna
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Rosanne Altshuler
    Key Cast
    "voice over"
  • Anna Siciliano
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Lia Palomba
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Annette De Lara
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Suzy Coe-Wilson
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Lluis Rey Maquiney
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Mia Fineman
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Carl D'Alvia
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Paolo Siconolfi
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Elaine Reichek
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Maira Kalman
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Katherine Meehan
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Manuela Sagona
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Antonio Monda
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Marina Sagona
    Key Cast
    "Voice over"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 30, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English, Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Geneva International Film Festival
    Geneva
    Switzerland
    April 24, 2024
    European premiere
    Award winner
  • Cadence Video Poetry Festival
    Seattle
    United States
    April 20, 2024
    North American Premiere
    Official selection
  • Trånas at the Fringe
    Trånas
    Sweden
    June 29, 2024
    Official selection
  • Flight international film festival
    Genoa
    Italy
    October 18, 2024
    Italian premiere
    Official Selection
  • Cleveland Arthouse Film Awards
    Cleveland
    United States
    June 11, 2024
    Official Selection
  • LA Underground Film Forum
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Honorable Mention
  • Ribalta Experimental Film Festival
    Vignola
    Italy
    March 16, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Spazio Supernova
    Rome
    Italy
    January 8, 2025
  • Sirene Wave
    Sesto San Giovanni
    Italy
    April 4, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Cadavre Exquis
    Palermo
    Italy
    April 8, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht
    Berlin
    Germany
    November 12, 2025
    Germany
    Official selection
  • International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok Thailand
    Bangkok
    Thailand
    October 18, 2025
    Official selection
  • Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art, Toronto Canada
    Toronto
    Canada
    December 14, 2025
    Official selection
  • Festival Internazionale Segni della Notte Urbino Italy
    Urbino
    Italy
    September 7, 2025
    Official selection
Director Biography - Marina Sagona

Marina Sagona (b. 1967) is an Italian and American multimedia conceptual artist.
She has got has diverse experiences in the arts. Early in her career, she studied Art History at the University La Sapienza in Rome and was the postmodern artist Mario Schifano’s studio assistant. After arriving in New York in 1995, she illustrated for The New Yorker and the New York Times. From 2006 to 2008, she directed the Contemporary Department of the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture (FIAC). Her curatorial practice includes a collaboration with Alanna Heiss on the exhibition “Senso Unico” at MoMA PS1 in 2008 and the exhibition “Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for the Cinema” at MoMA in 2014. Sagona is also the recipient of the 2019 Domus Artist Residency in Galatina, Italy, and the 2021 Chiquita Gallery Residency in Barcelona, Spain. Her film Stabat Mater won the Cadence Video Poetry Festival award in the category of Video Poetry by an Artist, the Best Script/Concept Award at Ribalta Experimental Film Festival and Best Experimental Film Award at Sipontum Arthouse International Film festival.

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Director Statement

My practice is concerned with exploring shared identity and dynamics of communication and control and all my projects are cycles based on several different works, each conveyed through a different medium, including video, sculpture and sound.