Dhërmi — Are You Dreaming?
For the fourth edition of the Gjon Mili Video Art Festival, we invite artists and audiences into a space where reality and imagination gently overlap, inspired by this year’s theme: “Are You Dreaming?”
Dhërmi is a place where such a question feels natural. Perched between mountains and sea, the village unfolds like a dreamscape of white stone houses, narrow pathways, ancient walls, and horizons that seem to dissolve into light. As day fades into night, familiar forms become uncertain, shadows stretch across centuries-old surfaces, and the landscape itself begins to feel suspended between memory and vision.
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This edition explores that delicate threshold where dreams and waking life meet. Video art becomes a medium not only for observation, but for transformation — a way of revealing hidden layers of perception, memory, desire, and imagination. In Dhërmi, moving images do not simply occupy space; they drift through it, merging with architecture, darkness, moonlight, and the sounds carried by the wind from the Ionian Sea.
The village is more than a setting. It is an active participant in the experience. Its stones hold stories. Its silence amplifies emotion. Its endless sky invites reflection on the images that emerge not only before our eyes, but within our minds. Here, projections appear and disappear like fragments of a dream, transforming walls into portals and familiar spaces into places of wonder and possibility.
We invite artists to engage with Dhërmi as a landscape of imagination. To question what is real and what is remembered. To explore how light can create illusions, how moving images can alter perception, and how art can transport us beyond the visible world. We encourage works that embrace ambiguity, mystery, poetry, and the unexpected — works that invite viewers to wander between certainty and imagination.
In this encounter between image, place, and perception, the festival becomes a collective dream. A space where boundaries soften, where stories unfold without explanation, and where each projection asks a simple but profound question:
Are you dreaming?
