Strawberry Mansion

In the dystopian future of 2035, where dreams can be taxed and invaded by advertisers, government agent James Preble (co-director Kentucker Audley) travels to the eccentric home of aging artist Arabella Isadora (Penny Fuller) to audit her dreams and finds himself falling in love as he explores her subconscious, stored on a vast library of VHS tapes. Beautifully imagined and realized by co-directors Adler and Albert Birney, who shot the film digitally then transferred to 16mm to achieve its distinctive, candy color-saturated look, Strawberry Mansion is a surreal sci-fi romantic comedy which reminds us that our dreams may be our most precious natural resource. (Dir. by Kentucker Audley & Albert Birney, 2021, USA, 91 mins., Not Rated)