Waking Life

Director: Richard Linklater

2001 / 99min / 35mm

The first fully rotoscoped feature film—that is, a film that animates original live-action footage—Linklater’s Waking Life follows Wiley Wiggens as he embarks on a wending, digressive psychic odyssey through a fluid, ever-changing dreamscape populated by friends, philosophers discoursing on the nature of perception, and… Alex Jones. A film of verbal acrobatics and constant visual invention, from one of our most impossible-to-pin-down filmmakers. “[A] shape-shifting head trip that ruminates on psychodynamic experience as it visually captures the essence of subjectivity in a manner no film ever has before.”—The Village Voice

Part of Dream with Your Eyes Open