Alleyway Daydream
2012, 13 minutes
Surrealist short about apathy
Alleyway Daydream is a surrealist adaptation on the perception people have towards doing things they do not want to do. The main protagonist is a 25 year old male, who has finished university, but is stuck in a dead end job working for his father and at the same time is having relationship issues with his eccentric girlfriend. Due to his unhappiness with his life, the main protagonists' only solace is his mind. He dreams up situations that he believes are better to be in other than the ones he is in. Almost underestimating the extremity of what he's day dreaming. He believes he would rather be homeless than have a job and he'd rather be dead than be loved. All characters presented in this film are an extremity of what they really are. Supporting this delusion the main protagonist has towards his life. He makes excuses for how cowardly he is - something we all could relate to.