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
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.
Showings
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