the sound in the video

CUBUS

Easily Embarrassed

MODEX

NATA

ORPHAX

synompsis

“These energies have a disarmed plasticity in us. It is enough to imagine, and the dreamed form becomes vaguely embodied. Once, when all these energies used to dwell hidden inside me, without any object, I felt, in the obscurity of my room, that I am becoming a tree, even a tree hit by a lightning: I raised my arms slowly, and their movement made them fall like the thick branches rend off the tree. These follies are finding their possibilities in our indifference towards them. If I want that – to change into a tree – I would fail. I became a tree just like dreaming, without any meaning, but I was awake, enthusiast with the thought of no longer being myself, but something different, I was sliding…”

Georges Bataille - "Inner experience"

“Only tomorrow” is a journey in the world of inner metamorphoses. The film follows Marius’s meetings and discussions with some friends.

A short motivation stands as introduction, an escape from the tormenting and oppressive world of the big metropolis like Bucharest, expressed by Nita’s strained dream.

The trip to the areas of reality that are empowered by our imagination starts with a gesture of refusal: Marius chooses to go into the opposite direction of the road sign that indicates “all directions”. Arriving on the realm of inner experiences, imagination and affectivity, at the borders of reality, Marius begins to describe some creative inner transformations from his own experience.

The inner metamorphoses can have an artistic character. In a discussion with NEURO, the conclusion is that “imagination is a drawing”.(Throughout the documentary, some works of art appear as testimonies of these inner experiences.)

Once again, the dream shows up from Nita’s testimonies. The dream appears here as an extension of our conscious inner transformations, as an extension of the borders of reality in which the echoes of day-time events are finding themselves in our unconscious nocturnal life.

In one of Marius’s testimonies, about a childhood memory when for a moment he was lost in a distant imaginary trip when listening to the sound of the train leaving the train station near by, the inner experience tends to gain a greater meaning than the simple status of our quotidian existence. There’s only one step from this to Linda’s testimony; the inner experience is already changing visibly hers and other’s existence. The surrounding world was transformed and was part of all this inner process of imagination, affectivity and the miraculous powers of magic. There’s an evidence in all that Linda relates by the end of the film and of Marius’s journey: magic can not be untrue; magic is in our selves, even though in reality it appears as an illusory game.

The journey is over, the time of magic is fading; returning to the daily life is inevitable. But the roads are the same: the possibility of wandering is only a decision that belongs to tomorrow.