A decade and a half ago poet Robert Kelly told me that the crucial work of our time might be what he calls the dream work I hope with this Series to have entertained his challenge more thoughtfully than with any previous dream filmmaking In homage to Sigmund Freud Surrealism this film proposes clear visual alternatives to the consideration of both The Interpretation of and all previous representations of dreaming SB These four short filmshave each individually a haunting quality but do importantly work together to form a gradually swelling curve of increasingly intense unease Marie Nesthus