JEREMIAH ZAGER "IN A DREAM" (DVD)

View trailer here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X6W-AL3Csw

After watching "Maestro" I knew I was going to have trouble watching a documentary again. They had drastically shifted the bar with their brilliant light work, unique shooting techniques, abstract storytelling through the use of incongruent timelines and spine tingling narration.  The fact that it lost the Academy Award for Best Documentary to "March of The Penguins" was further proof that the world just didn’t give The House Music the respect it deserved, OR.....maybe it lost because it was a complete clusterfuck and wasn't worth the 23 cent DVD it was burned onto. The Academy did however fail to realize it was a very accurate summation of the dance music world, it's movie making techniques mirroring the terrible Chez Damier remixes the masses flock to, the countless 'Sum shit' releases Jus-Ed drools out weekly and the dashiki's and head wraps that adorn every other middle-aged over-weight corporate job working dip shit that spends his evenings trying to convince his wife to allocate $4000 from their child's college fund so he can get the new Pioneer CDJ-s.

But outside of this dance music nonsense there exists a whole other segment of society, it is called THE WORLD.  In THE WORLD people wake up every day, go to work, fulfill their obligations, revisit childhood dreams if only momentarily and hope that one day things really will change.  They employ hope, they struggle DAILY with the fact that nothing really seems to add up and they try and often times fail to do the right thing.  You don't hear much about this segment though—their real life story isn't terribly entertaining, and is fairly monotonous.  I do however have a feeling if you could get inside their mind you would be drawn in quite quickly.  Sadly, we all know that mind-reading technology is not going to be imparted until everyone is properly marked with their micro-chips, so we must march on.

Within this segment of society we are referring to as THE WORLD, there exist a small contingent of people who do all the aforementioned yet cannot function in the actual world—they are referred to as 'mad', 'lunatics', 'insane'. What they really are is the purest this world has to offer—they are guided by instinct, and when the old 1 + 1 ain't equaling 2 upstairs they find it necessary to get the equation out of their mind and down on paper.  'We' (those into dance music and those others scared of math) refer to their scribing of algorithms as  ART. This ART takes many forms, from music to painting to the written word and well beyond.  What WE often do, however, is idolize and therefore falsify these artists and fail to realize they are people facing the same demons we comatose ourselves to daily.

What filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar does in 'IN A DREAM' is not only show the brilliance of his father's art but also show how that art was instilled in him.  He does this through intangible interplanetary editing and ethereal phantasmical sound sculpture; but MOST IMPORTANT and most tear-wrenching is what his family goes through and the immense strength his mother employs through life's most humbling of demonstrations.  Here a film that started out documenting one man's life work ends up telling the tale of humanity as a whole.

Close your eyes, melt ///-_..----__ here you are, where it is as you know...