Almost hallucinatory images of unidentified sleeping figures float across the screen to the accompaniment of increasingly unnerving monologues, the “dream narratives” of Dion McGregor, an aspiring Broadway lyricist who may have been performing for his roommate actively recording these sessions. In somniloquies, Paravel and Castaing-Taylor discover a dark, forked path to the unconscious in the ranting, sleep-talking voice of an obsessive and possibly deranged individual whose racist, misogynistic and xenophobic fears are unleashed with propulsive force and screeching climaxes.

Our intention is to reconnect with why documentaries are made: to awaken the flesh with which we sense and make sense, to question the enigma that is our lives and what it means to be human, and to reflect and incarnate a world beyond ourselves, our relationships with other creatures, animate and inanimate, real and surreal. The film reminds us that our wakeful self is no richer or more important than our dormant being that is irrepressibly ruminating on the remains of the day. – Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor