Melvin Moti

Dreamlife

19 Sep 2020 - 10 Jan 2021

Dreamlife, the first feature film by Dutch artist Melvin Moti (Rotterdam, 1977), will be shown in De Pont’s new wing this fall. Moti is particularly known for his short, often abstract and tranquil films in which he combines scientific and supernatural phenomena with historical anecdotes and ideas about art: stratified narratives by which he attempts to get a grip on immaterial matters such as time and space, in order to place our perception in a broader perspective. Those fascinations also surface in Dreamlife, which had its premiere in January 2020 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

Now, at De Pont, the film is being shown in a museum setting for the first time, and in relation to a selection of Moti’s work that includes several early films and photographs, one shows the sleeping surrealist Robert Desnos, who regarded the dream as a key to the subconscious. The exhibition allows us to see how various ideas that emerge in the film were already rooted in diverse forms throughout Moti’s oeuvre.

Screening times daily (but not on Mondays) at:
11.45
13.30
15.00