Everybody Dreams Sometimes

Everybody Dreams is a video-essay created within Ariel Avissar’s Parametric Summer Series, specifically responding to “Laird’s Constraint.” It deconstructs the final montage of Vanilla Sky by arranging its 88 shots into a grid, revealing thematic and visual patterns through still and moving imagery. Organized into 16 interpretive clusters, the work explores memory, identity, and dream logic. By pairing this sequence with Hans Richter’s Dreams That Money Can Buy, the essay exemplifies videographic work as a form that thinks, illuminating unseen connections and offering new ways of seeing and interpreting cinema and audiovisual content.