"Film is like that. It developed from [the silent era] into Fellini and Bergman, Buñuel and David Lynch. [They] took these ideas and created a film that was really like a dream."
"Kinaesthesia - meaning 'the sensation of movement' - marks the centenary of three major 'dream films': Dmitry Kirsanoff's Menilmontant, Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness and Fritz Lang's Metropolis."
"These filmmakers were unofficially competing with each other with ambitious dream sequences allowing for an explosion of style within more conventional narrative films."
Gerald Fox's documentary Kinaesthesia is inspired by Vlada Petrić's essay Film & Dreams, which examines the oneiric style in silent cinema. This style captures the essence of dreams, as articulated by Luis Buñuel. Fox's work traces the development of dream films, moving beyond clichéd sequences to explore psychological subjectivity in cinema. The documentary commemorates significant dream films from the silent era, showcasing how filmmakers like Murnau, Kirsanoff, Kinugasa, and Lang pushed the boundaries of narrative through ambitious dream sequences.
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