Flight (2022) dir. Selena Isho

The heroine floats above the bed like Sleeping Beauty, her surreal and hallucinogenic dream world materializing in a lethargic sleep, transforming her into a fairytale character. The created world is a world of dreams drawn from children’s fairy tales, pop culture, as well as ideas taken from numerous wish fulfillment and visualization programs. Escapism becomes an attempt to escape from the frustration caused by perfectionism and high expectations of life, a persistent desire to merge with one’s own fantasies and mirages. The audio track reproduces a fragment from a film about Elizabeth II, whose words the heroine tries on herself: “She never worked, never washed dishes, never cooked food, never dusted… She doesn’t know the value of money.”