The Interregnum Project

Essay-film, 2022

The space between imagination and reality is not a threshold to be crossed but a condition to be inhabited. Dreams and sleep are where this condition is most legible: the boundaries between the mind’s interior world and the external world of objective reality dissolve, and what remains is neither one thing nor the other.

This territory shares its logic with hauntology. Lost futures and abandoned possibilities do not disappear; they persist in the present, present in the gap between what was anticipated and what arrived. Dreams operate by the same principle. The past, the present, and the future are not sequential here but simultaneous, and the visions of what could have been sit alongside the reality of what is.

Nostalgia works within the same structure. Where dreams surface sentimental attachments to the past, they charge the present with longing rather than release it. The interregnum is where this process settles: a space in which the past does not recede and the future has not yet declared itself.

The film takes this liminal space not as metaphor but as subject, and what it finds there bears on the deeper question of how consciousness makes coherence from the real and the imagined.