About Dreamlands the Doc

If you believe the future is set in stone, why bother trying to change it? Why go to the trouble of fighting for or even dreaming of anything better?

 

The climate is changing. The way we talk about this crisis needs to change too. What becomes possible when we allow ourselves to imagine more than one future for the places we call home? What futures become tangible when we let ourselves dream? 

 

In this documentary I will travel across Canada to interview people in and about the landscapes they call home.

 

Participants can be individuals, or groups like families, friend groups, club-mates, couples, etc!

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I will ask participants to imagine and share their hopes and fears about the places they call home in the climate crisis.

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Using fabrication techniques, miniature sets, and hand-drawn animation, I will create and bring to life the environments described by the film’s subjects. 

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The final film will be a speculative documentary that combines interview footage, landscapes, hand-drawn animation, stop-motion animation, and fabrication to explore the climate crisis within a Canadian context from an unexpected perspective: the future.