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Near my frontdoor... my site nav links: ..... ......... you know where that is? The JVC Tokyo Video Festival is one of the world's most important international video competitions, : which attracted a record 2,096 entries this year, was initiated in 1978 with the aim of encouraging communication through video-making by amateur and professional individuals and groups. |
"Award of Excellence" 10th JVC Tokyo Video Festival 1988 "Prix Radio-Québec" Québec Festival of Young Cinema & Film from Québec's educational TV network Montréal 1988
Tiptoeing through the unreality of stifling timid, bureaucratic passivity with Mr. Dream as low-key daredevil guiding us through a slide show that puts our would-be adventurer to sleep. His dream escape is then depicted in the form of a musical interlude. When he wakes up after his maudlin evening, it is only to go back to his safe home where he can hide from travel, plane crashes and everything frightening, i.e., his life in general.
In the closing scene, he goes to bed, book in hand (Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams), on of the pages of which makes a wry commentary on the video's budget, he closes his eyes and goes to sleep. zzzzz's literally coming out of his mouth."
Francine Dagenais in Cinema Canada Magazine June 1988
Running Time : 12 mins - standard : ntsc color
Original Format : 3/4" u-matic - Audio : stereo ch. 1 & 2
Credits
Video Artists: George A. Lessard, Robert Hamilton, Dave Clark
Camera: Robert Hamilton, Dave Clark
Video Editing: G.A. Lessard & Robert Hamilton
Digital animation & effects: G.A. Lessard
Music composed, performed and recorded by: Dave Clark
Sung by: Dave Clark & Robert Hamilton
Sets by: Dave Clark & Robert Hamilton
Story by: Dave Clark & Robert Hamilton
Actors: Mr. Dream played by Dave Clark
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the story teller is Robert Hamilton
