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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary Dreams Rewired traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination – promising total communication, the annihi...

Directed By: Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode

Written By: Mukul Patel, Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Icarus Films
  • 1 h 28 m

Dreams Rewired

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Dreams Rewired traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination – promising total communication, the annihi...

Directed By: Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode

Written By: Mukul Patel, Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88
Dec 16, 2015
The ethereal essay provides a bounty of poetry, in the form of a measured narration by international treasure Tilda Swinton, and an extensively labored assembly of 200 black-and-white film clips.
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Dec 16, 2015
First with the telephone, then early cinema, the magic of wireless radio and, finally, television, Dreams Rewired bombards the senses with a thorough and clever montage of found footage from the 1890s to the pre-war era.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 4, 2016
Dreams Rewired is scattered by necessity and intent, and it throws off enough sparks to set your brain reeling.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 16, 2015
Its feature-length assemblage of found footage, unified by an original soundtrack and eccentric narration by Tilda Swinton, will be too much of a good thing for some art-house patrons. But auds accustomed to the work of Bill Morrison and other archive-combing meditation artists should respond warmly.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 16, 2015
Dreams Rewired is mostly content to entertain. Its explanations of how new inventions work are simplified to the point of superficiality.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 17, 2015
Tilda Swinton narrates this oddball, meandering essay film.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 14, 2015
The documentary isn't advancing an argument so much as simply restating a European socialistic breed of fact.
By Christopher Gray FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Amour Fou Vienna, Ambient Information Systems, Bildschon Filmproduction
Release Date Dec 16, 2015
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline A genealogy of connection.
Website http://www.dreamsrewired.com/
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Awards

Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Ann Arbor Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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