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Have you ever woken from a deep sleep, totally lucid but unable to move? Devil in the Room explores this space between dream and reality, explaining the science and history behind sleep paralysis, a mystifying and often terrifying phenomenon in which dreams intrude upon waking life. Through evocative stop-motion animation and puppets, the film recreates these waking dreams, bringing vividly to life spiders that seem to crawl out from under the bed, and the feeling of a monstrous presence lurking just out of sight.
Director: Carla MacKinnon
Producer: James Mullighan
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Wellbeing
Through a poetic account of childhood trauma, one woman reclaims her past
28 minutes
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Politics and government
‘Without a poster, you don’t exist!’ – on the curious political banners of Mumbai
20 minutes
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Earth science and climate
A biologist on the sorrows of documenting the Great Salt Lake’s collapse
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Design and fashion
Household items are reborn in a ‘visual symphony of everyday objects’
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Music
As a pianist strikes a chord, visualisations of his notes appear in real time
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Quantum theory
Why aren’t our everyday lives as ‘spooky’ as the quantum world?
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Film and visual culture
The old-time cinema experience endures in a quiet corner of Japan
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Space exploration
Burning ice, metal clouds, gemstone rain – tour the strangest known exoplanets
31 minutes
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Gender and identity
‘I didn’t fall in love with a couple of body pieces’ – on marriage and transition
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