
Tonight the World draws from a cross-section of dream diaries kept by Martinās grandmother, Susi Stiassni, who fled the imminent Nazi occupation of Czechoslavakia in 1938. Through five chapters, the film links as many dreams sited in Susiās childhood home, Villa Stiassni, a modernist mansion built by Susiās parents, who were prominent Jewish textile manufacturers in the industrial hub of Brno. Conjured in Susiās imagination from her middle-age onwards, in the context of psychoanalysis, the dream diaries as a whole span 40 years and 40,000 dreams, but Martinās selection focuses tightly on dreams about intruders within the Villa, recreating a narrative of threat and escape that parallels Susiās lived experience. Retracing the legacy of her grandmotherās emotional history, Martin considers the unconscious underpinnings of intergenerational trauma, loss and resilience.
Writer
Daria Martin
Country
Czech Republic, United States of America


