Contrast Between Dreams And Reality

Process

explosion cinema 4d from evelyn on Vimeo.

This is my first experimental video of my new project in which I want to create my own version of the dream sequences shown in the movie inception. I was influenced by the exploding city scene, in which Cobb is sitting at a cafe with Ariadne explaining to her the construction of a dream and how people perceive them. Cobb says that you only realize you were in a dream when something strange starts to happen. Then with his consciousness he causes various explosions throughout the streets and houses in order to convince Ariadne they are in a dream.

With my first video I wanted to bring that "scene" to the street of Portobello. My purpose is to show the contrast between dreams and reality. Therefore, i decided to make something solid (in this case the street) to explode while walking over it. "In a dream we create and perceive our world simultaneously and our mind does this so well that we don't even know that its happening" meaning that we don't have actual control of the architecture as we do in real life.

Inception

 " It's the chance to build cathedrals, entire cities, things that never existed, things that couldn't exist in the real world..."

"In a dream you can cheat Architecture into impossible shapes."

Ariadne Learns How To Build Dreams.

Inception City Explosion - Waking Up From A Dream Scene

Paradox Architecture - Penrose Steps - The Infinite Staircase

" You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you. But you can't know for sure. But it doesn't matter - How can it not matter? "

 -Mal's riddle     

The most utopian element of the movie is Limbo-"unconstructed dream space." In this lowest level of subconscious dream space, one can create for oneself an ideal world.

 One way in which we could interpret the film is that it describes what is possible and impossible through the dream states themselves. 

M.C. Eschair

It depicts a man in a gallery viewing a print of a seaport, and among the buildings in the seaport is the very gallery in which he is standing. The gallery is physically in the town, the town is artistically in the picture, the picture is mentally in the person.

"Belvedere" depicts a beautiful scene of the Italian countryside and mountains with a viewing platform in the foreground. One of Escher's "impossible buildings", the belvedere is based on a visual paradox, its two levels being placed at an impossible right angle to each other. The bemused chap at its base in fact holds in his hands a structural replica of the paradox, while the poor prisoner bemoans his fate though no one listens.

The above drawing is called Relativity.  It has inspired many movie sets including Inception, Labyrinth and Tomb Raider.  Despite being a lousy student and receiving no formal math training, Escher used mathematical principals in his drawings to create “impossible structures” that seemed to be going up and down at the same time.

Exquisite Corpse

André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Yves Tanguy

Exquisite Corpse surreal art collaboration group on Deviant

Surrealist artists subjected the human body to distortions and juxtapositions that resulted in fantastic composite figures. The Surrealists were interested in the unconscious mind and dreams. They often produced imagery that was randomly put together without conscious thought. The results were often humorous and surreal.