FILM SCREENING + TALK: What the whale carries: a film screening and conversation on dreams

Something in us lives beyond language. Before we reach for words, we dream — in images, in bodies, in feelings that refuse to be named. Cinema knows this. It has always spoken in the same tongue as the unconscious: symbolic, nonlinear, alive with meaning we sense before we understand. Leland has been dreaming about whales, while she and her husband Jaan try to get pregnant. A film built from the inside out — shot seasonally through improvisation, dream work, and a trust in the actor's instinctive, unconscious knowing. Director Ryan Balas went looking for the deepest whales, and found them.