LOST DREAMS (2024)
9mins –
Film Synopsis: The world of consumption vs the world of the artist, which one will be lasting when we wake up?
Lost Dreams is about dreams. Scientists have not fully figured out dreams. The ancients believed you could predict the future through your dreams, Native Americans created dream-capturing devices. Some people keep dream diaries. Freud believed that we could fix people’s psychological problems by analyzing their dreams.
Lost Dreams is an experimental film which explores the idea that when we sleep we edit our dreams, and, in the context of this film, what is being edited is the idea of the free world of the artist to create and the consumption world of modern society. With consumption and greed does the artist still exist? Conflicting worlds a dreamer might explore in one night’s sleep.
Director: Andrew Wakeman Proctor
Biography: From the time I was little, I have always been a visual storyteller whether it was through drawings or building with legos. Italy is where I discovered storytelling and filmmaking. When I was growing up my parents would take my sister and me to Italy in the summer. My father was a Professor of Italian at Connecticut College. My mother is an artist. Her work is influenced by Italy. She lived in Florence for ten years. Our house was filled with her pastels. She always encouraged me to do collages and drawings. We would visit Florence, Rome, and stay in an apartment in Venice during the month of August. When I was eight friends of my family let me use their video camera. We were all sitting on the zattere in Venice eating pizza outside. I wanted to use the camera to capture the city, to show people what it meant to me. Venice is filled with beautiful architecture. The canals, the variety of boats, the winding streets and the dream-like, mysterious atmosphere inspired my imagination. Through the camera I was able to zoom in on the steeples of churches and try to follow boats.
When I first held a video camera I knew I wanted to be a visual storyteller. I would take any opportunity I could to watch films or to use cameras. When I was fourteen my parents bought me my first camera. We lived in Rome that year and I used my Sony hi8 to film all over the city. When we returned to the United States my parents sent me to the Marvelwood School in Kent, Connecticut, for high school. The Marvelwood School had a film program where I was introduced to editing. When I discovered editing in high school and learned more about it in college I realized it was my medium for telling stories in film. I was first introduced to experimental filmmaking while studying Film Studies at Connecticut College. I got introduced to the works of Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage. Studying experimental film challenges my creativity and inspired “Lost Dreams “
“Lost Dreams” encompasses my filmmaking journey. The images of Italy are from when my family lived there. The choices of Shakespeare were introduced to me during my childhood. I currently live in Glendale, California, over the Hollywood hills. I work in the film and TV industry. In 2014 I moved out to California to study film editing at Chapman University. “Lost Dreams “ was started in the basement of the Connecticut College Library and finished in Los Angeles this past spring.