collective : unconscious A new anthology series In 2015, five of independent film’s most acclaimed filmmakers joined forces for a unique collaborative project. The plan: to adapt each other’s dreams for the screen. The result: a new, five-episode anthology series. the team Josephine Decker Josephine was recently called “the most original independent filmmaker to surface in the past few years” by The New Yorker, who also said that she is ushering in “a new grammar of narrative.” She aims to spark curiosity and wonder in audiences through lively, spiritually rich character-driven films.

Josephine’s narrative features Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2014. Her films have screened at MoMA, SXSW, and Silverdocs, and aired on PBS, Logo and Netflix. •

Frances Bodomo Frances is a Ghanaian filmmaker & one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her first short film, Boneshaker (starring Oscar-nominee Quvenzhané Wallis) premiered at Sundance 2013. Her second short, Afronauts, premiered at the 2014 Sundance, Berlinale, and New Directors/New Films Festivals.

Frances is currently developing the feature version of Afronauts (supported by the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, IFP, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, and Spike Lee). Daniel Patrick Carbone

Daniel’s feature film debut Hide Your Smiling Faces had its world and north- American premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 and was awarded the Best Undistributed Film of the Year by the National Society of Film Critics. Hide Your Smiling Faces was released theatrically and on cable/VOD in Spring 2014 via Tribeca Film.

Daniel resides in Brooklyn, NY where he co-owns the collaborative filmmaking group and production company Flies Collective. •

Lauren Wolkstein

Lauren is an award-winning filmmaker and assistant professor of film at Temple University. Her short film work includes Cigarette Candy (SXSW 2010 Best Narrative Short, Palm Springs ShortFest 2009 Best Short), The Strange Ones (Sundance 2011 World Premiere), and Social Butterfly (Sundance 2013 World Premiere).

Lauren was recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and is currently developing her feature film debut. Lily Baldwin Lily is a filmmaker and dancer recently featured by ShortsHD as one of the "The Top 10 Emerging Directors to Watch.” According to The New York Times, “the genre needs directors who are willing to look beneath the surface and to dream, as Lily Baldwin does.” Recent work includes Sleepover LA (SXSW 2014) and A Juice Box Afternoon (Filmmaker Magazine). As a dancer, she most recently performed with David Byrne on his EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY World Tour.

Along with the feature film Glass (IFP's Emerging Storytellers), Lily is • currently developing episodic series and developing a VR film. Dan Schoenbrun

Dan is collective:unconscious’ Executive Producer and ringleader. By day he works as the Film Outreach Lead at Kickstarter. Previously he worked as the Associate Director of Programming at IFP, where he helped to launch the 35-year-old organization’s web series programming. Dan has served as the Associate Editor of Filmmaker Magazine, and spoken at festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, and NYFF. the episodes episode one Black Soil, Green Grass in which a man and his grandmother hide out from a deadly broadcast.

Directed by Daniel Patrick Carbone // Adapted from Lauren Wolkstein’s dream. episode two Everybody Dies in which the Grim Reaper hosts a 70s- era children's TV show.

Directed by Frances Bodomo // Adapted from Josephine Decker’s dream. episode three Swallowed in which a suburban mother's domestic normalcy is ripped open by the parasite growing inside of her.

Directed by Lily Baldwin // Adapted from Daniel Patrick Carbone’s dream. episode four Beemus, It’ll End in Tears in which a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a dormant volcano.

Directed by Lauren Wolkstein // Adapted from Frances Bodomo's dream. episode five Natural High in which formerly incarcerated men and women reimagine their first days of freedom.

Directed by Josephine Decker // Adapted from Lily Baldwin’s dream. the release collective:unconscious has been conceived for release in two formats. an omnibus feature film an anthology web series

V/H/S by way of Buñuel. The Twilight Zone’s spiritual grandson.

A feature film for festivals and theatrical Five episodes released through one digital exhibition. partner.

Weaves all five episodes into a unified whole, Features additional interactive content allowing enveloping viewers inside a literal viewers to explore each dream as it was collective:unconscious. originally dreamt. buzz for collective:unconscious "It's not everyday you get a group of up and coming American directors pooling their colleague’s & collaborator's dreams for their next creative endeavor...

If experimental and narrative can find a home together in the independent American front again, well, a few of the folks in this gaggle, at the least, are sure to do it.”

-Twitch Film collective:unconscious had me at, “Five of NYC’s most adventurous filmmakers are working together to adapt each other’s dreams.”

-Filmmaker Magazine "Artists should not be limited to just one medium through which to tell their stories. We share that belief with indie vet Dan Schoenbrun, who has assembled a team of five independent New York filmmakers to embark on a collaborative new web series… The possibilities are endless.”

-Tribeca Film collective : unconscious Coming Winter 2016