In the feature film "collective:unconscious," five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join forces to adapt each other's dreams for the screen. In this segment, director Lauren Wolkstein adapts Nuotama Bodomo's dream.
“My PE class and I are stuck in a volcano and we’re being made to drink hair in soap water to stop from getting blown up by the volcano-master (who has a walrus mustache).”
-Nuotama Bodomo's dream
Director: Lauren Wolkstein
Dreamer: Nuotama Bodomo
Producer: Chanelle Elaine
Director of Photography: Zachary Galler
Starring: Will Blomker & Ryan Cassata
Official Selections: SXSW, Maryland Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, Cleveland International Film Festival, IFP Screen Forward, Atlanta Film Festival, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Independent Film Festival Boston, Montclair Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh
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"Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen With Your Eyes Open"
-David Ehrlich, Rolling Stone
“The most complex and cohesive anthology film since 'Fantasia 2000.'
-Sean Malin, Austin Chronicle
"Envelops you in five different dream worlds, each with distinct style and bracing originality."
-Dana Reinoos, Screen Slate
14 minutes
Written & Directed by Lauren Wolkstein
Produced by Sébastien Aubert, Ad Astra Films
Starring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Camille Claris, Ulysse Grosjean
A 30-year-old American woman enters into a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
2013 Sundance Film Festival
2013 SXSW Film Festival
2013 Maryland Film Festival (Opening Night)
2013 Sundance NEXT WEEKEND
2013 Filmmaker's 25 New Faces Screening
2014 IFC Center's New French Shorts (presented by UniFrance)
14 minutes
Written & Directed by
Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein
Produced by Sébastien Aubert, Ad Astra Films
Starring David Call, Merritt Wever, Tobias Campbell
A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be.
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
2011 Sundance Film Festival
2011 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival
2011 SXSW Film Festival
2012 International Film Festival Rotterdam
BEST FILM AWARDS
2011 Hamptons International Film Festival
2011 International Film Festival Boston
2011 Atlanta Film Festival
2011 Columbia University Film Festival Focus Features Award
13 minutes
Directed by Lauren Wolkstein
Written by Jeff Sousa
Produced by Brigitte Liebowitz
Starring Jonny Orsini, Emily Morden
Eddie Van Buren, a traumatized teenage Marine, is forced to play the role of 'the hero' at his homecoming party. In pursuing a rebellious, precocious sixteen-year-old girl, Candy, he sees an opportunity to numb his pain and connect to a fellow lost soul.
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & AWARDS
2010 SXSW Film Festival
- Best Narrative Short Film
2009 Palm Springs International ShortFest
- Best Short Under 15 Minutes
- Most Promising Student Filmmaker
2009 San Sebastián International Film Festival
2009 Columbia University Film Festival
- Adrienne Shelly Award for Best Director
- Plum Pictures Most Promising Filmmaker
- Student Choice Award: Best Direction
- Entertainment Partners Best Producing
2010 Florida Film Festival
- Jury Award for Outstanding Performance
2010 Cleveland International Film Festival
- Best Student Short Film
Young Love. The Chelsea.
Written & Directed by Lauren Wolkstein
Cinematography by Brandon Roots
Produced by Buffalo Picture House
in association with Collateral Films (Milan)
Two young lovers spend an afternoon together in the Chelsea Hotel.
A fashion video for Gucci.
15 minutes
Written & Directed by Christopher Radcliff
Produced by Lauren Wolkstein + Autumn Tarleton
Executive Produced by Sébastien Aubert, Ad Astra Films + Don Faller, Double Wide Media
Starring Owen Campbell, Tobias Campbell, Birgit Huppuch
Everything changes one night for Alex, a troubled teenager, when he is visited by a boy claiming to be his brother -- who disappeared years earlier.
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
2014 Sundance Film Festival
2014 SXSW Film Festival
2014 Tokyo Short Shorts Film Festival
2015 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival
Takako Vs Nine Lives
Recipient of 2015 & 2017 Temple University Presidential Arts & Humanities Research Program Grants
Directed by Lauren Wolkstein
Choreographed by Laura Katz
Produced by Chanelle Elaine
Cinematography by Jen Schneider
Sound Design & Original Music by Tim Korn
Interdisciplinary Collaboration from Temple University Professors
Center for the Arts: Boyer College of Music with Dance & Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
Combining the Work of Dance Scholar/Artist Dr. Laura Katz Rizzo & Filmmaker Lauren Wolkstein