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And Then I Woke Up
(2021) ryerson university
director/editor - ben yoganathan performers - jenn tan, cameron staffen, anna kopaceck
Developed with three Toronto based performance artists, (Cameron Staffen, Jen Tan, Anna Kopaceck) and then I woke up is a documentary video installation about dreams.
Each artist was asked to recount a recent dream they had, as they remembered it. The responses were recorded and then juxtaposed with home video and smartphone footage of each of the performers. All of the videos had to be from the recent or not so recent past.
The dreamlike structure of the recorded narrative contradicts the documentary nature of the videos and creates a sense that all human experience is a dream. The present moment is so brief that we are always just imperfectly remembering what we did and how we did it.