Film synopsis
Dream Town examines the life, work and fantasies of Russians and Ukranians in a decaying mining town in Svalbard, the northernmost inhabited place in the world.While making the documentary about the town and the effects of polar magnetism on dreams, director Adrian Briscoe offers a free film school to the coal miners, scientists, and children and helps them collaborate to create strange and magical films. Their vignettes intersect with the documentary material, making the film a hybrid of fact and fiction, where real and unreal are intermeshed. Dream Town is rare and hypnotic portrait of lives lived in this former Soviet hamlet on the northerly edge of the world.
Narrated by Paul Bettany and co-written with novelist Ray Robinson, Dream Town won the Best Picture award at both the Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Derby Film Festival, UK in 2014.
Film synopsis
Dream Town examines the life, work and fantasies of Russians and Ukranians in a decaying mining town in Svalbard, the northernmost inhabited place in the world.While making the documentary about the town and the effects of polar magnetism on dreams, director Adrian Briscoe offers a free film school to the coal miners, scientists, and children and helps them collaborate to create strange and magical films. Their vignettes intersect with the documentary material, making the film a hybrid of fact and fiction, where real and unreal are intermeshed. Dream Town is rare and hypnotic portrait of lives lived in this former Soviet hamlet on the northerly edge of the world.
Narrated by Paul Bettany and co-written with novelist Ray Robinson, Dream Town won the Best Picture award at both the Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Derby Film Festival, UK in 2014.