dreamers are essential.
“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.” - Kahlil Gibran
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” - Oscar Wilde
Who are the dreamers? Dreamers are the ones who dare see past the economic turmoil, the political irresponsibility, the artistic censorship, the degradation of the entire human race, the wars that rip people apart, the political animosity that has no resemblance of any kind of god, and the continual twisting and taunting of individual freedoms. Dreamers are not simply those that speak about sunshine and rainbows. They push through some of the toughest critics, become innovative when every penny is spent, paint a wall in black and see total possibility instead of darkness, can make a piece of scrap metal a piece of art that makes a jagged edge a powerful statement, can take the simplicity of human emotion and translate that into a film that changes the way you view this tragically realistic world. Dreamers are responsible for every scientific invention, every technological advancement, and yes, perhaps rocket science. I realize there are other dreamers who envision a world fraught with violence and weaponry and chaos, but that isn’t a dreamer. That is a cynic. That is someone with a god-complex.
” Dreamers are that underlying pulse existing in everything happening in the world.”
To be a dreamer you must want to better mankind, to create beauty and hope, to imagine possibility; To make or create work, in any pool of invention, that provokes thought, entangles your emotions, forces you to face another perspective. Dreamers give everyone the validation to see past the realm of what is. We cannot survive in this world without hope.
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.”
I have mentioned this already in a previous blog, but when I was at the Foreign Film Symposium at the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences, Mark Johnson said some things that really resonated with me. Every film that was submitted, only 1 out of 66 was an outright comedy. The thread of displacement, the questioning of where we’re heading, the sense of isolation, the socio-economic depression, the wounded sense of family, the tattering of love … it was relevant in all of the films. That speaks volumes as to where this world, stifled with humanity, is. Some people think dreamers are a waste of space but in truth, if you are not able to see what is possible, to open your eyes and see past your peripheral vision, perhaps your eyes aren’t seeing anything at all. You have to see even further than that - you have to see what is far beyond your comprehension, what is blurry and so far in the distance, it may seem improbable to make out. You must be willing to be seen as weak and vulnerable and tear through that with a voice so loud and vibrant, even in it’s silent velocity of estrangement, it becomes melodic. We cannot trap the hope. We can no longer disengage the dreamer. We cannot dismiss the sheer relevance dreamers possess.
“It’s time to breathe life into the dreamers, to invest in possibility, and to snuff out indifference.”
In another breath, film is a medium that translates the state of the world. It seems the voices are much more difficult to silence nowadays which perhaps, is the beacon of hope. Around the globe, the entirety of who we are as a people, is being challenged. Are we so void of human connection that death is no longer shocking? Are we more concerned with the death of an animal than we are of the maiming of a human being? At what point do we begin to value one another above all else? Dreamers are our hope. Dreamers are going to be forced to bring this world back together, to harness peace, to break away from the Neanderthal-like primitiveness we have allowed this world to resort to. Dreamers will have to use beauty and truth in such a way that we inflict the world with goodness and remind it of its capabilities. We cannot imprison unity, rather we must confine inhumanity.
Written by Dawn Garcia
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