1997 | United States | Short

The dream and the waking

  • English - 15 mins
  • Director | Cecilia Dougherty
  • Writer | Cecilia Dougherty
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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The dream and the waking is a documentation of my commute between New York and Boston, which I make every week for my job. I wanted to document not only the fact of the commute--where I go and how I get there, what I am leaving behind and what I am going to--but also the stream of thought that runs through my mind on this commute. The trip was not something I would normally do unless I absolutely had to, and for almost a year it was the one part of my life that never changed. The space of the commute is like a non-space, like a recurring dream. It combines the public space of the road with a deeply solitary mental space. There is nothing in-between.

commute travel reflection solitude routine thought mental
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