Dream With Your Eyes Open

“When the cinema lights go down,” Rainer Werner Fassbinder once said, “the dream begins and the subconscious takes over.” He is hardly the first or last figure to make the connection between dreaming and filmgoing—two activities involving the experience of vivid but unreal images that occur in the dark—and in Dream with Your Eyes Open, we explore works in which filmmakers have translated the illogic and illumination of what the mind produces during the sleep of reason, and the exhilaration that can come from travelling to another place or reality. Featuring reveries from the formidable minds of Akira Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Satoshi Kon, and more. Pinch yourself—it’s the real thing.