Instructions for Dreaming a Collective Film

Beyond the stories, beyond the illusion of a fixed and stable order, we are, above all, shaped by moments, images and fragments. Reclaiming those images, becoming aware of them, making them our own also means making films, with a collective will. 
 
This is a workshop where our own dreams and the images that surround us every day — even against our will — are transformed into creative material. It is common to conceive of cinema and films from a purely industrial and professional perspective, and at the same time as ‘auteur’-driven, supposedly the result of individual genius, for which the work of others is placed at its service. We coexist with these ‘images of genius’, while at the same time we are confronted with the endless stream of images that assail us daily: on our phones, on public transport screens, on television, on billboards… This whole jumble of images becomes entangled in our subconscious, both individually and collectively. The aim of this workshop is to take ownership of these ideas, to reclaim them so that we can reinterpret them and share them in order to unravel their meanings, their possibilities and their contradictions. During the workshop, a group of teenagers will work and play with personal images from their dreams and subconscious, as well as with images for which they are not, strictly speaking, responsible (scenes from other films, images from the internet, advertising and so on). They will use them all to create their own collective film. 

A workshop led by the collective Espíritu Escalera, in collaboration with the students and teaching staff of the first year of sixth form at Colegio Lourdes.