Synopsis
After overeating, a man staggers home and falls into a nightmare. Furniture moves, tiny figures torment him and his bed flies above the city, leaving sleep as unstable as the street he has just escaped.
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Wikimedia Commons · Edwin Stanton Porter / Winsor McCay · Public domain
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Inspirations
Edwin S. Porter adapts Winsor McCay's newspaper comic strip. The film translates the strip's distorted dreams into live-action tricks, superimpositions and impossible movement.
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