Canadian Premiere
Underground

Dream Factory

Directed by Alex Matraxia

Credits  

Official selection

London Short Film Festival 2024
BFI Future Film Festival 2024
Overlook Film Festival 2024
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival 2024

Honors

Best Cinematography - Overlook Film Festival, 2024

Director

Alex Matraxia

Producer

Emily Eyre

Writer

Alex Matraxia

Cast

Naissa Essart-Nielsen, Charlie Josephine

contact

Wendyvision

United Kingdom 2023 7 mins OV English
Genre ThrillerLGBTQIA2S+

Dream Factory is an experimental short, exploring the historical role of cinemas as cruising sites, as well as the role of nostalgia and fetish when navigating queer history, cultural memory, and the tactility of the past. Given how cruising and porno-cinemas have become scarce within a gentrified and digital landscape, the film hopes to recover these public intimacies - moments of physical connection and abandon - while reviving cinema’s ghosts in a spectacle of gender and genre confusion.