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The Library of Dreams is a documentary project based on dreams' research during political repressions and wars in the Third Reich, USSR and modern Russia, where dreams overcome censorship and report pain. By collecting and recreating dreams, we create an alternative universe, a universe of authentic feelings. It's an embodied experience where the user is traveling through the dreams of different people living under oppressive regimes. Many of the heroes of our research lived an "ordinary life", awake, they did not express any resistance to the political situation. It seems important to us to show the duality of consciousness that is inherent in all who have experienced the collective trauma of state terror.

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These photos were filmed by Svema from the virtual reality "Library of Dreams".

Svema was a major Soviet-era state-owned manufacturer of the photographic film, magnetic tapes and cassettes... read more

These photos were filmed by Svema from the virtual reality "Library of Dreams".

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Svema was a major Soviet-era state-owned manufacturer of the photographic film, magnetic tapes and cassettes... read more

Library.

In the first part, the viewer enters the space of a metaphysical "library", where masks of sleeping faces float in the air. To see the dream you have to get inside the head, arter you will find yourself in this person's dream and move into the space of dreams.

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The space of dreams:

A meta-space with "wormholes", where being in one space affects the over. We selected 12 dreams, where are parallels in the plot and the place of action. Thus, we combined the dreams into 5 groups by location. In each location, dreams from the Third Reich coexist with modern dreams and dreams from the Soviet era.

Library.

In the first part, the viewer enters the space of a metaphysical "library", where masks of sleeping faces float in the air. To see the dream you have to get inside the head, arter you will find yourself in this person's dream and move into the space of dreams.

Chapter |

Chapter ||

The space of dreams:

A meta-space with "wormholes", where being in one space affects the over. We selected 12 dreams, where are parallels in the plot and the place of action. Thus, we combined the dreams into 5 groups by location. In each location, dreams from the Third Reich coexist with modern dreams and dreams from the Soviet era.

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