current work in progress intro Fear of
Alternative Realities


"Fear of Alternative Realities"
(Inspired by Julio Cortazar's story "The Night Face Up" )

5.5 min, 16mm, sound, shot spring '98, finished winter '99

Script, cinematography, sound, editing and directing by Zhanna Kleiman.
Acting by Vladimir Kleiman.
Camera by Mark Urso.
Mentoring by Dominic Angerame .

titles
Which reality is the Real Reality?
What is more real -- the signals our perceptive organs receive, our interpretation of them, our imagination, our visions, our dreams? What are we to trust more?
In the traditions of Latin American fiction, this film questions the solidity of any objective reality by blurring the boundaries of time and place, of conventional and dream-like, of perceived and imagined.
Stills:
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