Edge Of Dreaming

A whimsical documentary capturing the essence of life but also the fear of death. For the dreamers...this one is recommended!
Have you ever had a dream and by the next day, the dream came true?

I'm sure many people have had certain dreams and coincidences in which we chalk off as just coincidence but for Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie, she has always been a rational woman, a filmmaker who has focused on science documentaries and always delved into what causes this and what cause that. A normal woman with a loving family of three children (two daughters and a son from a previous marriage, her ex-husband died of cancer) and her current husband and a family that is happy as can be.

Living in the country, maintaining her horses, loving life. And that filmmaker instinct of always bringing a video camera with her, may it be to film her family members or whatever nature brings to the countryside near her home.

But on one evening, while sleeping, she had a dream of her horse telling her that he will be dying but to film it. Terrified about the dream and bothered by it, she woke up,...

Very good, but be warned
Please read the excellent review by Dennis Smith, which pretty much says it all, but I thought I'd add this. I teach a class on dreams and showed the film to my college students. It's rather slow-moving and dark at times (that's the warning), and I feared that my students would find it boring or would get turned off by the moments when our film-maker turns to a shaman for help. They didn't. They were intrigued. The plus is that her three kids are charming and makes you want to have a few more of your own if they could be like this.

Amazing piece of film making - and Life!
This is one of my all time favorite documentary films! It is beautifully filmed in Scotland where the film maker lives, and takes one through a year of her life. But this is not an ordinary year, it is one of those pivotal ones in which lessons are either learned or ignored at one's own peril. In this case, the filmaker, being a curious soul, decides to film the ensuing year, (her way to make some sense of what was happening) not knowing what the outcome will be. I really don't want to spoil it for you, so you will just have to watch it for yourself. As for another reviewer's assertion that dreams are only misfirings of the brain, one can look at it like that, but it might perhaps be at one's own peril. (The film maker made films for scientists before this, so she was as skeptical as the next about what all this really meant - you'll have to decide for yourself.)

Anyway, I am buying a second copy, I love it that much, so when it is loaned to someone, I'll still have...

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