Like a Dream

An experimental and parodic film, Like a Dream retraces Marianna Rothen's 17-year career in modeling. After becoming a photographer/ filmmaker, she spent three years making this autobiographical behind-the-scenes feature film. The film tells the humorous story of a teenager who left home in the late 1990s to become an international model. Through bizarre, caricatured stagings, Rothen embodies the figure of the "Young Girl". Her character, confronted by an environment obsessed with perfection, faces abuse of power and depression. Creating a mise en abyme, the Canadian artist moves among a multitude of plastic mannequins. She animates them like puppets in scenes evoking this dream life. Demystifying the glamour of catwalks and glossy magazine pages, Like a Dream functions as an intimate diary and authentic testimony to an experience lived between dream and reality.