| EPISODE 10: DREAM SEQUENCE || A.2: EROS, ALWAYS ALREADY |

Film Essay

Dream Sequence explores the porous boundaries between the unconscious realms of REM and NREM sleep and the conscious experience of waking life. The work delves into the phenomenological dissolution of these states, questioning how the fluidity of dreams—those ephemeral, distorted narratives of the subconscious—transforms into the tangible fabric of our waking realities. In this examination of waking dreams, the collage series reflects on the interplay between the surreal and the real, the imagined and the material, asking how the subconscious informs and disrupts our conscious perception of space, time, and identity. By blurring the distinctions between dreaming and waking, Dream Sequence posits a cyclical interdependence between these states, where what is experienced as 'real' becomes indistinguishable from the dreamt.

Act

Act 3: Eros, Always Already | Agile Cinema® operates as a reflexive apparatus within contemporary media praxis, staging intimate engagements with its interlocutors—artists, curators, actors, scholars, executive creatives, chefs, musicians, collectors, poets, and filmmakers—not merely as subjects, but as co-producers in a durational and participatory aesthetic encounter. This mode of ‘agile’ production reconfigures traditional hierarchies of authorship and spectatorship, producing what might be termed participatory media, in which the lines between creation and reception are deliberately blurred. Situated within a dramaturgy of metalepsis and fourth-wall rupture, the project embraces a performative destabilization of narrative boundaries. Drawing on the traditions of collage, montage, and theatrical assemblage, Eros, Always Already stages a hybridized cultural space where public and private, fiction and documentary, converge. It is a gesture of aesthetic and affective entanglement—a dramaturgical act of love—that treats the creative process not merely as content generation, but as relational poiesis in a shared field of becoming.

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Double-Sided Collages | 4 x 4″ | 8 x 8" | 20 x 20" | 36 x 36"

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Bricolage

Collage, Montage, Assemblage

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