Art student Mia is struggling with a make-or-break assignment, a self-portrait. It’s only when grandma let’s slip that her mom used to hypnotize her as a child to blank out the bad bits that she begins to understand the severity of the challenge…
Oak Bay husband-and-wife filmmakers Ramsey Fendall and Deanna Milligan pull out all the stops in this breathtakingly creative fantasy film, an indie production that suggests some unholy union of Possession, the work of Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer, Jean Cocteau, House of Psychotic Women, and a big dose of punk besides. As the title indicates, the movie is a kind of lucid dream, although quite how lucid is up for interpretation! Is it a horror film? Well, there’s a fried chicken monster, among other traumatic manifestations. But there’s something undeniably exhilarating about a low budget movie taking so many risks.
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Deanna Milligan & Ramsey Fendall
Georgia Acken, Caitlin Acken Taylor, Amber Dandelion, Vivian Vanderpuss, William Acken, Jo Barnes
Canada
2025
English
Best Canadian First Feature, Victoria Film Festival
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Producer
Ramsey Fendall, Emanuel Foucalt, Deanna Milligan, Martin Cadieux-Rouillard
Screenwriter
Deanna Milligan, Ramsey Fendall
Cinematography
Ramsey Fendall
Editor
Ramsey Fendall, Deanna Milligan
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