A six-minute fever dream where childhood nostalgia goes cannibal.
Cinematography
Black-and-white 16mm that makes suburbia look like a snuff film.
Sound
That distorted crooning turns innocent lyrics into something deeply wrong.
Direction
Perel-Arkin packs more dread into six minutes than most features manage.
Director
Anya Perel-Arkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Traum' means 'dream' in German, but shares roots with 'trauma'—a linguistic wink that Perel-Arkin absolutely intended.
The song 'Strawberries, Cherries and an Angel's Kiss in Spring' was a 1950s jazz standard; its use here weaponizes postwar American innocence against itself. The cannibal cult isn't just eating bodies—it's consuming nostalgia.
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