RAISED IN THE INSTITUTION OF DREAMING (2024)

Developed for the Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam as part of Programmers of the Future.
Supported by FONDS21.

The world has lost its magic. In their lecture-performance, filmmakers Taymour Boulos (Lebanon)

and Farah Hasanbegović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) use the language and mythology of films to

figure out if any magic remains hidden in cinema - and how we can save it from the void. Through

archival materials, scenes stolen from films and original images, the cinema transforms into a

situation room focused on identifying tangible forms of magic in the practice of filmmaking and

analysing the gaps that magic once used to occupy. An evening dedicated to figuring out if the world is going to feel a little disappointing forever.

If the world was never really magical at all – why did films make it feel like it was?