Movies

In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains captivated by the fading illusions of dreams. This creature, lost in reveries it wanders through freely, clings desperately to visions that no one else can see. Until a woman appears. With the rare ability to perceive these illusions for what they truly are, she enters the creature’s dreams, determined to uncover the truth within them.

Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan continues his long-standing exploration of the audiovisual space between reality and imagination. In his latest film, he takes us on an emotional odyssey unfolding through poetic scenes steeped in imagination and speculation, where memory and technology merge and intertwine.

This multi-part experimental epic is structured around a journey through time and cycles of reincarnation. During this journey, a mysterious 'Fantasmer' sacrifices immortality by choosing to continue dreaming (with dreaming serving as an allegory for cinema), while 'The Big Other' attempts to awaken him in order to make time linear. Named after the Lacanian psychoanalytic concept, she functions as the guardian of symbolic order and reality in a world permeated by artificial illusions.