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Release Date: 2001

Cast: Timothy "Speed" Levitch, Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Richard Linklater, Alex Jones, Steven Soderbergh, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Kim Krizan ...MORE

Cast: Timothy "Speed" Levitch, Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Richard Linklater, Alex Jones, Steven Soderbergh, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Kim Krizan, Steve Brudniak ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Avant-Garde, Animation, Drama Film, Mystery, Fantasy, Experimental Film, Ensemble Film

Waking Life is an American animated film (rotoscoped based on live action), directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. The film focuses on the nature of dreams, consciousness, and existentialism. The title is a reference to philosopher George Santayana's maxim: "Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled." Waking Life is about an unnamed young man in a persistent dream-like state that eventually progresses to lucidity.... MORE

Waking Life is an American animated film (rotoscoped based on live action), directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. The film focuses on the nature of dreams, consciousness, and existentialism. The title is a reference to philosopher George Santayana's maxim: "Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled." Waking Life is about an unnamed young man in a persistent dream-like state that eventually progresses to lucidity. He initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions of issues such as reality, free will, the relationship of the subject with others, and the meaning of life. Along the way the film touches on other topics including existentialism, situationist politics, posthumanity, the film theory of André Bazin, and lucid dreaming itself. By the end, the protagonist feels trapped by his perpetual dream, broken up only by unending false awakenings. His final conversation with a dream character reveals that reality may be only a single instant which the individual consciousness interprets LESS