The Seventh Dream is a short film created by submerging Kodak Portra 400 analogue film in saline solutions made with rock salt from prehistoric seas and tears, producing images of mineral dreaming. The film traces chemical memories of minerals and bodies, revealed in colour shifts and surface distress as its silver bromide coating reacts with the liquids. Drawing on early surrealist and experimental cinema, as well as cross-cultural histories of dreaming, it follows a feverish journey of a female protagonist who repeatedly falls asleep, entering dream after dream, while searching for a way back to the waking world, a threshold that only her tears can cross.
The film was created for the Journal of Art and Ecology and can be viewed here.