The Dream Collector Lives

BlackStar Film Festival selection Albina Dream Survey (ADS) was an interdisciplinary artistic project that seeks to create an archive of Black folks’ dreams and aspirations. The film, animated by Garland, follows the Dream Collector, the “Honk-Shoo Hero,” and his quest to preserve the fantasies of Black people from the nightmarish forces that seek to destroy them. The film was accompanied by an installation that extended the world of the film to physical space, “The Dream Collectors Bedroom.” Attendees were encouraged to draw their dreams and hang them up in the bedroom as a community-building activity.

Made in collaboration with Garland, the Portland Art Museum Center for Untold Tommorows, and students at Martin Luther King Elementary School, Black children’s art is reinterpreted into an afro-surrealist fashion cartoon rendered in 3D animation, graphic design, and a collaborative art installation, the Dream Collector’s Bedroom. If you have a dream worth sharing, please call the Dream Collector’s hotline at (971) 266-0341 to share it anonymously.

This project is brought to life by Garland, Devyn Sinclair, and LѦKE! Special thanks to Ellen Van Dusen of Dusen Dusen for supporting ADS with a generous clothing sponsorship.