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Dreamstate: What Are Movies Really Selling? is a short, scripted documentary about the hidden ideologies within popular, blockbuster movies and their unconscious effects on audiences.

The film begins by explaining that 'dreamstate' is an effect caused by watching moving images, where the audience's minds release a level of critical thinking and subjectivity, forming an emotional connection to the movie in order to have a more enjoyable viewing experience. The film aims to expose popular movies as propaganda selling a consumer lifestyle aesthetic through the on-screen presentation of “norms” or “culture.”

Dreamstate focuses on the critically overlooked movie genre of romantic comedies, as a pragmatic example of the Hollywood film industry and its products. Often considered to be ‘chick-flicks,’ films in this genre are often treated as being simply surface level. This connotation trivializes the targeted female audience, negating the fact that romantic comedies can be one of the most insidious instances of promoting oppressive patriarchal hierarchies and unsustainable consumerism. Dreamstate, focuses its analysis on the 2004 fantasy-romantic-comedy 13 Going on 30, giving the audience examples and tools that can be directly applied to their own media consumption.

Lee (Elizabeth) Green first began making this work after noticing a lack of entertaining, cinematic film theory documentaries that foregrounded a critical, female gaze. Her vision for this piece is that it will go on to spread knowledge in an accessible way, outside of an institution, to audiences who do not have a background in film theory.

"I want the audience to feel not only connected to the film but also be an active participator in the discussion both in and outside of the theater. This theory of the dreamstate, is something that I have been circling around with my film work for a few years now. Specifically having a background in analog film, I noticed that many of the discussions about a film piece would come down to the feeling of being entranced by the film, 'in a dreamstate'. But it does not stop with just analog film, I believe this phenomenon is a side effect of watching moving images in any form. While experiencing this work, the audience is asked to consider their own viewing practices. How they might be affected by popular image culture, both consciously and unconsciously? " - Lee Green

Dreamstate, itself is also aware of its own propaganda, and utilizes its final moments as a call for a more conscious consumption of media.

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