film Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/film/ Dream Research & Education Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:42:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png film Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/film/ 32 32 2025 Dream Animation Film Festival 3 https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-3/ https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-3/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:42:22 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4666 The winner of this year’s “Audience Choice” award went to Daniel Rabanea for “Bends.” Daniel described the dream that inspired his film as follows: “I was alone on the beach. At first everything seemed calm until the sea started to look strange. A wave formed and grew bigger and bigger. My fear grew along with …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-3/feed/ 0 2025 Dream Animation Film Festival 2 https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-2/ https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-2/#respond Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:30:41 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4664 The prize for this year’s Best Animation Style went to Daniele Grosso for “The Bird Insect Tornado.” Here is Daniele’s description of the dream that inspired the film: “I am at a picnic on the bank of a river with some friends. I notice a flock of pinkish colored bird insects flying around a tree. …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-2/feed/ 0 2025 Dream Animation Film Festival 1 https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-1/ https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-1/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:26:24 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4661 The prize for this year’s “Best Animation Narrative” went to Jessie Rodriguez for “Dreams – A Memory of Ghosts.”   This is how Jessie describes her work, which all the judges of the festival agreed is an outstanding piece of dream creativity: “My new animation, ‘Dreams: a Memory of Ghosts,’ explores how I seem to …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/2025-dream-animation-film-festival-1/feed/ 1 David Lynch, Epic Dreamer: In Memoriam https://bulkeley.org/david-lynch-epic-dreamer-in-memoriam/ https://bulkeley.org/david-lynch-epic-dreamer-in-memoriam/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:30:01 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4611   “Dreamy” is one of the adjectives most often used to describe the cinematic art of David Lynch, and justifiably so. Below are two journal articles I have written about his works in which I explore and celebrate his aesthetic dreaminess, especially in the films Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, and the television series …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/david-lynch-epic-dreamer-in-memoriam/feed/ 0 The Ethical Challenges of Dream Video Technologies https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/ https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:52:23 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4345 New technologies are making it possible to use brain data to create video reconstructions of people’s dreams while they sleep. Is this thrilling, terrifying, or both? Here’s how it works. Researchers are learning how to observe an individual’s brain while viewing a specific image (let’s say a cat) and how to identify neural patterns correlated …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/feed/ 0 Preparing for the 2018 Dream Studies Conference https://bulkeley.org/preparing-2018-dream-studies-conference/ https://bulkeley.org/preparing-2018-dream-studies-conference/#respond Thu, 07 Jun 2018 22:39:54 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3618 The world’s biggest yearly gathering of dream researchers, teachers, artists, and therapists is less than two weeks away. The 35th annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) will be held June 16-20 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.   I attended my first IASD conference in 1988 in Santa Cruz, California, and I …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/preparing-2018-dream-studies-conference/feed/ 0 Dreaming and Theater: A Dynamic Connection https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-theater-dynamic-connection/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-theater-dynamic-connection/#respond Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:22:36 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=3266 In August of 1991 I joined a group of dream researchers from the U.S. and Western Europe on a journey to Golitsyno, a conference center just outside Moscow in the former Soviet Union, where we planned to meet several Soviet researchers for a gathering organized by Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak.  Just hours after our plane …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-theater-dynamic-connection/feed/ 0 Robots Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/robots-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/robots-dreaming/#respond Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:45:55 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2936 “I, Robot” (2004) is a movie about visions of the future that are haunted by dreams from the past.  Loosely based on Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-fi stories from the 1940’s, the film opens in 2035 with a harrowing nightmare that graphically repeats, PTSD-style, an accident suffered by homicide detective Del Spooner, played by Will Smith.  …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/robots-dreaming/feed/ 0 The Technology of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:10:53 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2906 “For myself I never found need of more than four or five hours’ sleep in the twenty-four. I never dream.” So said the famously hard-working inventor Thomas Edison in 1921 in his Diary and Sundry Observations.  Edison claimed the only truly restful sleep was totally unconscious, and he regarded dreaming as a waste of mental …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/feed/ 1 The Dream Logic of Twin Peaks https://bulkeley.org/dream-logic-twin-peaks/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-logic-twin-peaks/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:09:59 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2762 A cool new book has just been published, with special appeal to David Lynch fans.  Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks, edited by Marisa C. Hayes and Franck Boulegue, was released this month by Intellect Books in the UK.  Other titles in the Fan Phenomena series include Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dr. Who, and Batman.  We’re …

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