The dream on screen.
About
BAFTA and Grierson award-winning filmmaker Gerald Fox celebrates the centenary of the so-called dream film in cinema with Kinaesthesia, a kaleidoscopic and stylised documentary that returns to the silent era when imagination, movement, and image-making seemed to open new dimensions of possibility. Using a collage of visual textures, rhythmic editing, and evocative portrayals of performance and projection, the film invites viewers into the world of silent-screen artistry, where the body becomes a language and the audience is drawn into the experience through gesture, tempo, and the choreography of light. Kinaesthesia follows the thread of this early cinematic dream as it takes shape across eras and locations, bringing together historians, artists, and experts who interpret how these films captured sensation without sound. At its heart, the documentary grapples with a central hook: how can cinema make feeling visible, and how does it guide us to “know” through perception as much as through narrative?