Your Dream is my Dream

"Your Dream is my Dream" is a film about shared identity and the Jungian concept of collective unconscious.
According to C. G. Jung we are all born with common patterns and ancestral memories, called archetypes, that are the same in different cultures.
The collective unconscious manifests itself through art and dreams, particularly reoccurring dreams, that with minimal variations are indeed the same for all of us.
We all dream the same dreams.
The film is a chorus of reoccurring dreams that 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 and consistency 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
Director Biography - Marina Sagona

Marina Sagona (b. 1967) is an Italian and American multimedia conceptual artist. Her upcoming exhibition Stabat Mater at Chiquita Room Gallery will take place within the frame of the Loop Festival in Barcelona in November 2023. Sagona 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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