Matter is dreamed in Reveries

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" Since reverie is always considered in terms of a relaxed consciousness, one usually ignores dreams of definite action, which I will designate as reveries of will. Furthermore, in the presence of reality, with all its forces and its terrestrial matter, it is easy to believe the the function of reality rules out the function of unreality, and easy to forget the unconscious impulses, the oneiric forces ceaselessly overflowing into conscious life."

As creative imagination has quite different functions from those of reproductive imagination, Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Bachelard, proceeded to re-manipulate ordinary pixel reverie footage of spring. View the short animated poetic by clicking here, or on the links above. (patafilm # 391, 01'14'', 5.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)