_Our debt to desire
FESTIVALS
_SYNOPSIS
An invitation to the meal of your dreams.
Sweet Dreams is a study of human appetites – of greed and restraint, guilt and desire. Using the theme of food and the language of dreams, it explores our complex and often conflicted relationships with the things we want.
Sweet Dreams is an immersive experience and VR piece that combines screen, theater, music & cutting edge technology to bring a new way for audiences to engage with stories.
_Technical sheet
Format: Immersive & VR experience
Running time: 60'
Status: In production
Year: 2022
Version: English
Author: Simon WROE
Director: Robin McNICHOLAS
Creative director: Robin McNICHOLAS
Producers: Eleanor WHITLEY, Marion GUTH, François LE GALL, Julie TREMBLAY
Production companies: a_BAHN (LU), Marshmallow Laser Feast (UK), PHI Studio (CA)
With the support of: Film Fund Luxembourg (LU), British Film Institute (UK), Innovate UK (UK), National Lottery (UK)
Robin McNICHOLAS
Director & Creative director
Robin McNicholas is the Co-founder and Creative Director of the award-winning creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast, Robin has directed a myriad of VR experiences, large-scale installations and live performances.
Marshmallow Laser Feast is a London-based experiential studio working at the intersection of technology, art and science. Always looking to create experiences that immerse and amaze in unexpected ways, MLF employs a wealth of creative disciplines – from photo-real virtual reality to robotic performance and realtime mapping – to push boundaries, redefine expectations and excite audiences worldwide.
Robin McNicholas is the Co-founder and Creative Director of the award-winning creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast, Robin has directed a myriad of VR experiences, large-scale installations and live performances.
Marshmallow Laser Feast is a London-based experiential studio working at the intersection of technology, art and science. Always looking to create experiences that immerse and amaze in unexpected ways, MLF employs a wealth of creative disciplines – from photo-real virtual reality to robotic performance and realtime mapping – to push boundaries, redefine expectations and excite audiences worldwide.
Simon Wroe is an award-winning author, journalist and former chef. Chop Chop, his debut novel about raucous Camden chefs, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, and won a Betty Trask Award. Here Comes Trouble, his second novel, follows the teenage son of a newspaper editor in a post-Soviet country heading towards extremism and revolution, and was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. He writes features for the Guardian, books and arts reviews for the Economist, and teaches novel-writing at Curtis Brown Creative. In addition to his novels, Simon is currently writing the screenplay for a film and virtual reality project called Sweet Dreams, which is about the last days of a mythical land of plenty. It will premiere at Sundance in January. He was born in 1982 and lives in Camberwell, south London.
Simon WROE
Author
Simon Wroe is an award-winning author, journalist and former chef. Chop Chop, his debut novel about raucous Camden chefs, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, and won a Betty Trask Award. Here Comes Trouble, his second novel, follows the teenage son of a newspaper editor in a post-Soviet country heading towards extremism and revolution, and was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. He writes features for the Guardian, books and arts reviews for the Economist, and teaches novel-writing at Curtis Brown Creative. In addition to his novels, Simon is currently writing the screenplay for a film and virtual reality project called Sweet Dreams, which is about the last days of a mythical land of plenty. It will premiere at Sundance in January. He was born in 1982 and lives in Camberwell, south London.
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