"Oreo" Teaser
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This film presents a character’s experience of Home as a place that always feels too large to inhabit. Although the space is modest in scale, the feeling is that of a receding intimacy with these surroundings when contrasted with the character’s experience outside of her house: the unavoidable proximity to strangers in cars and trains.

The narrative takes the shape of the inverted structure of The Wizard of Oz, beginning with a dream sequence (the scene sampled), transitioning to a mundane day at work, and then concluding with a final dream sequence. The primary concern of this piece is the relationship one has with his or her thoughts and memories when influenced by the stories of strangers and commercial advertising. One man’s confusion between memories of his family and footage from a Dodge Caravan commercial is one such example in the film.