Dreamcatchr - An Opera by Lily Akerman

For this project, I was asked by RIAM to create a live poster and print deliverables, such as static poster, program booklet, etc, for their upcoming Opera, named 'Dreamcatchr.' In the script, the protagonist, Jane, undergoes a loss of sanity as she develops the coding for an app that can help you relive dreams, so there was naturally an inclination to use this counterplay between dreams and technology in the imagery I made for the project deliverables. I was interested in trying out stop-motion for the animation, as I felt it allowed for a more surreal quality in how the image moved. Regarding the imagery itself, at one point during one of Jane’s many dream-sequences she envisions blue hands emerging from her computer screen to grab her. This specific image stood out to me as it signals the onset of her hysteria, so by using my own hands, I developed the visual language surrounding this scene. I created the poster as a looping gif so as to communicate a sense of unrelentingness.