-A visual poem about human bodies-
Art film
Production Studio Total Helsinki, 2023
Duration 62 minutes
Language English with Finnish subtitles
Audience age recommendation 7 years old
Director and screenwriter Anna-Maria Lipponen
Director of photography Petri Tuhkanen
Production design Petri Tuhkanen, Anna-Maria Lipponen
Costume design Coline Meret Lola Jud
Sound design and music Ilkka Tolonen, Mila Laine, Ville MJ Hyvönen
Editors Anna-Maria Lipponen, Petri Tuhkanen
Gaffer Ville Tolvanen
Script supervisor and grip Pinja Ylioja
Key grip Valdemar Virtanen
Performers Tuomas Kiiliäinen, Mila Laine, Jukka Tarvainen, Kira Riikonen, Anna-Maria Lipponen, Knut Lipponen-Tuhkanen
Voice actors Laura Kamis Wrang, Juha-Pekka Mikkola, Maija Paunio, Satu Mikkelinen, Tuomas Kiiliäinen
Color grading Petri Tuhkanen
Sound supervisor and 2nd camera Ville MJ Hyvönen
Translator Kirsi Suutarinen
Production cordinators Jaakko Lenni-Taattola, Petra Kytölä
Executive producers Anna-Maria Lipponen, Petri Tuhkanen
It’s the year 2023. Human masses work in their own small compartments in multiple floors. The individual had been erased and everything had been standardised. Everyone has their own function in order for the masses to maximise the mass production. Humans artificially grow another human inside themselves. Meanwhile, the last wild human escapes in the forest.
In the film we follow the story of three main characters: A man, worker, who enters the factory in the beginning of the story and who makes the biggest decision to leave the system in the end, a woman – a cellist, who can’t play anymore because the system muted her arm and the last wild human, who runs in the forest and tries to keep herself in the freedom.
In the end, the last wild human has been caught. At the same time the whole system starts to fall apart. “In the end, the longing grows so great that it surpasses all fear and that’s when the body starts to function, too.”
Dreamwork is a visual poem about the human body, it’s a state of mind. The world is changing. Utopias have gained a new foothold in the world, and the most significant question for humanity is whether we should stop the progress of utopias.
” Luckily even civilised predators know how to dream about good. Therefore, there is still hope in the world.”
