Waking Life - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Waking Life"

Waking Life (2001)

Timing: 1:39 (99 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

'Waking Life' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

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Waking Life (2001) Original Trailer [FHD]

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What's left behind the scenes

Jesse and Céline, characters from the film 'Before Sunrise,' appear in one of the scenes.
The film is based on stories from people who used LSD and on so-called lucid dreaming – an altered state of consciousness in which a person realizes they are dreaming and can control the course of the dream. This term was coined and introduced by Dutch psychiatrist and writer Frederick van Eeden (1860-1932). Various characteristics of lucid dreams, as depicted in the film, are described in the works of psychophysiologist Stephen LaBerge, who founded the Lucidity Institute in 1987.
The film's title is taken from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "(1809-1849) "Dreams" (1827-1828), which contains the line: "All better than the cold agony of being."
The entire film is presented at 12 frames per second. Only the credits are shown at 24 frames per second.
It took up to 250 hours of work to create one minute of animation.
It took programmer and computer animation specialist Bob Sabiston 3 weeks to create the final scene of the film. Each tree and plant in this scene was worked on separately.
The scene where a monkey delivers a lecture features a small clip from the film "Dreams of Akira Kurosawa".
Timothy reads the poem "City in Sleeplessness (Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge)" by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (1898-1936).
At the bar, Stephen Prince tells the same story featured in Martin Scorsese's documentary, "American Boy" (1978).
Jesse and Celine – characters from the film 'Before Sunrise' – appear in one of the scenes.
A short scene from Akira Kurosawa's 'Dreams' is shown in the scene where a monkey is giving a lecture.
Timothy reads the poem 'City in Sleeplessness (Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge)' by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (1898-1936).
In the bar, Steven Prince tells the same story that is featured in Martin Scorsese's documentary 'American Boy' (1978).

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