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| directed & edited: | Lo que me queda de Vos | The When | As If It Was Yesterday | Flying Birds & Books | Urban Faces | Hier spricht Berlin | Burn the Bunker |
| edited: | Red Burka | The Edge of Dreaming | Carlssons | El Puente Colgante | Belhaven In A Box | The Loop |
The Edge of Dreaming
directed: Amy Hardie :: main editor: Ling Lee :: photography: Amy Hardie, Ian Dodds ::
sound design: Gunnar Oskarsson :: production: Amy Hardie for Amy Hardie Productions,
Doug Block and Lori Cheatle for Hard Working Movies, George Chignell for Passion Pictures
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HD :: 73 minutes :: documentary :: 2009, UK/Scotland ::
Involved TV Channel: ZDF/ARTE, CHANNEL4, Scottish Screen, VPRO
Festivals: IDFA 2009, 27th Jerusaml International Film Festival, The Irish Film Institute's Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, 11th Jewish Film Festival, 2101 DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver, True/False Film Fest 2010, Docaviv 2010, 12th Thessaloniki Int. Doc. Festival, DocsBarcelona 2010, Daniel Northway-Frank Hot Docs Canadian Int. Doc. Festival, DOCNZ 2010 in Auckland and Wellington, Beldocs 2010 in Serbia, ZagrebDox 2010, Against Gravity in Warsaw, Martha's Vineyard Film Fest, Bergen Int film Fest, EBS tv Korea, Kos nt Film Fest, Prix Europa, Biografilm Festival in Italy, Tribeca, Edinburgh Internation Filmfestival 2010
A woman dreams her horse is dying. She wakes to find him dead. The she dreams this year will be her last.
This is the story of a rational, sceptical woman, a mother and wife, who does not remember her dreams. Except once, when she dreamt her horse was dying.
She woke so scared she went outside in the night. She found him dead. The next dream told her she would die herself, when she was 48.
The Edge of Dreaming charts every step of that year. The film explores life and death in the context of a warm and loving family, whose happiness is increasingly threatened as the dream seems to be proving true. From the kids reaction to their horses’ death (they taught the dog a new trick – called ‘dead dog’), the film mixes humour, science and married life as Amy attempts to understand what is happening to her. Everyone wrestles with the concept of their own mortality, but few so directly explore and confront the subject. When Amy fell seriously ill, as her dream predicted, she went on a search to change that dream, leading her to eminent neuroscientist Mark Solms, and to new understanding of the complexity of our brains. The final confrontation, going back into her dream with the help of a shaman, reveals a surprising twist to the tale.
In the guise of an intimate and entertaining autobiography The Edge of Dreaming explores the timeless themes of consciousness and destiny, dreams and reason.
Animation, home movies and the spectacular Scottish landscape make the journey a pleasure for the senses and a celebration of the desire for life.
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