Dreams Rewired

Name: Dreams Rewired
Genre: History, Documentary, News
Released: December 16, 2015
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 62

2015

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Icarus Films | Release Date: December 16, 2015 | Not Rated

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, theDreams 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 annihilation of distance, an end to war. But then, too, there were fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality. Using rare (and often unseen) archival material from nearly 200 films to articulate the present, Dreams Rewired reveals a history of hopes to share, and betrayals to avoid.… Expand

Director: Manu Luksch and Martin Reinhart and Thomas Tode

Genre(s): History, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

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. Read full review

The Guardian Jordan Hoffman

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. Read full review

Ty Burr

Feb 4, 2016

Dreams Rewired is scattered by necessity and intent, and it throws off enough sparks to set your brain reeling. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Dec 16, 2015

Dreams Rewired is mostly content to entertain. Its explanations of how new inventions work are simplified to the point of superficiality. Read full review

John DeFore

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. Read full review

Christopher Gray

Dec 14, 2015

The documentary isn't advancing an argument so much as simply restating a European socialistic breed of fact. Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Dec 17, 2015

Tilda Swinton narrates this oddball, meandering essay film. Read full review

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EpicLadySponge

Apr 3, 2016

Dreams Rewired is a dream worth going back and forth until you wake up from a random nightmare taking over your mind. Don't miss this dream worth getting on your home media collection.

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