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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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1. JSTOR
2. H-Soz-Kult
4. About
Irina Paperno
«Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams»
Charlotte Beradt
«The Third Reich of Dreams»
primary sources
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Projito.ru
(archive of diaries)
(archive of diaries)
Social media questionnaires
1. JSTOR
2. H-Soz-Kult
4. About
Irina Paperno
«Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams»
Charlotte Beradt
«The Third Reich of Dreams»
primary sources
Explore
Explore
Projito.ru
(archive of diaries)
(archive of diaries)
Social media questionnaires
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The teaser of the project "Library of Dreams" was shot on
a 35 mm camera from virtual reality.
a 35 mm camera from virtual reality.
The teaser of the project "Library of Dreams" was shot on a 35 mm camera from virtual reality.
teaser mobile
Aksinia Dorn
composer
Pavel Falileev
filming
Maksim Saveliev
filming
Jane Rzheznikova
lead author
Aleksandr Lyapunov
author
Alina Mikhaleva
& Less Media Group
& Less Media Group
VR curator & producer
Dinara Kagirova
VR developer
Aleksandra Selivanova
curator of the historical part
Polina Aleshchenko
composer
Aksinia
Dorn
Dorn
composer
Pavel
Falileev
Falileev
filming
Maksim
Saveliev
Saveliev
filming
Jane
Rzheznikova
Rzheznikova
lead author
Aleksandr
Lyapunov
Lyapunov
author
Alina Mikhaleva
& Less Media Group
& Less Media Group
VR curator & producer
Dinara
Kagirova
Kagirova
VR developer
Aleksandra
Selivanova
Selivanova
curator of the historical part
Polina
Aleshchenko
Aleshchenko
composer
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the project is supported by
Jane Rzheznikova
Alina Mikhaleva
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the project is supported by
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