January 25, 2018. The Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street), one of only a few surviving independent theaters in Manhattan, is hosting Secrets of the Deep: DREAMS on FILM, a short film festival fully dedicated to exploring relationships between cinema and the dream experience.  Ten films, each between 5 and 10 minutes long, are selected from among narrative, music video, documentary, and experimental genres.

Producer of the event is Lower East Side indie filmmaker Jeffrey Wengrofsky, who has released seven short films on countercultural artists and is finishing his first feature film. Secrets of the Deep is the fourth installment of Wengrofsky’s “Secrets…” series.  Each of the Secrets programs selects ten short films on a specific topic: Secrets of the Heart, Secrets of the Insect World, Secrets of the Intoxicated Life, and the new program on dreams.  Secrets of the Deep attracted over 400 international submissions, including many from England, where Wengrofsky had a showcase at London’s Framestore Preview Theater in August, and also from India, a well-known a cinema hotspot.  “The real world can be such a drag. It’s more fun to wander around in the imaginations of strangers,” says Wengrofsky, who enjoys holing up and watching films for a few weeks.

A third of our lives is spent sleeping.   Whether understood as a form of foreknowledge, a portal to a metaphysical plane, or a domain of psychological desublimation, dreams have rightly been the subject of spiritual speculation, scientific research, and artistic endeavor since the dawning of humankind.   Giving dreams their pride of place among human obsessions, SECRETS of the Deep: DREAMS ON FILM will exhibit 5 to 10 minute films about dreaming, featuring dreams, or films that are dream-like.
 

SECRETS of the Deep: DREAMS ON FILM

Description: Festival of ten short films about dreams

Date: Thursday, January 25, 2017, at 8pm

Location: Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, NYC

Tickets: $15, $10 (seniors and students w/ID)

Cash bar, 21+ w ID only

Website: http://www.genefrankeltheatre.com/secrets-of-the-deep-dreams-on-film.html