Five minutes to fall through a dream you can't wake up from.
A collection of interwoven images are threaded together by a string of unspecified women who roam their dreamscape which they are unable to escape. They are displaced, belonging to no particular point in time or place, and a disoriented sense of self pervades. Together, the film becomes a quietly throbbing organism of reality and unreality, and the gaps between an impending present and a perpetual past are frail.
Cinematography
Grain-drenched 16mm that breathes like living tissue.
Editing
Associative cuts that dissolve time itself.
Director
Leila Helena Grillo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Grillo shot this during her MA at London College of Communication, reportedly using expired stock she found in a closing lab.
The title references 'woolgathering'—literally mind-wandering while tending sheep—reclaiming a dismissive term for women's interiority.
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