A Reading Attempt On The Relationship of Film and Dream Experience: The Secret Face

Abstract

Classically defined films, which adopt the logic of daily life and proceed in a linear line, try to give the audience a kind of "real life" experience, while the films that go beyond the usual system and exceed the time-space boundaries comprehend the audience with a dream-like experience. Creating a dream-like experience is about resembling dreams in terms of structure, style and aesthetic. The purpose of this study is to examine the inner logic of dreams and determine which way a film should follow in order to provide a dream experience. In this context, firstly, the equivalence of the concepts of time and space, which undergo changes in dreams, in cinema is emphasized. After the relationship between film and dream experience is based on time and space, in order to shed light on the further stages, the relationship of dreams with reality and unreality is emphasized and the projection of this relationship in cinema is investigated. A reading attempt was made by analyzing the relationship between film and dream experience through Ömer Kavur's The Secret Face (1990) film, which has a unique dream language.