*audiovisual 360/VR experience
1-channel film, sound
5:38 min
DigitalDream.mp4 is a project about the tempting escapism into the world of one’s dreams, forgetting about all responsibilities and hardships of real life for the time you’re asleep, as well as a metaphor of the similar digital escapism that happens nowadays when getting lost inside our phone screens.
In the dream world, you experience something similar to a second world created entirely by your brain exactly after your liking, full of your own ideals, desires and memories. As you find yourself at this place that feels both so obscure and weirdly familiar, you start asking yourself:
Wouldn’t it be better to stay inside that world forever?
Is it possible to just leave real life behind and instead get absorbed by this new reality completely?
But as these thoughts cross your mind, there is also another voice of reason inside of you, one that makes this apparent freedom feel like you’re trapped inside it instead.
What if you can no longer escape from your own dream world?
Will what once was your perfect dream instead become a nightmare?
Or do you accept leaving everything and everyone you know from the real world behind for your own eternal happiness?
(2023)