S1.E3 ∙ Part 3

Visual Haiku. During a surgery, a man leaves wandering visual and audio sensations. Along the way, he met 3 sort of distress situations and watch their way of living. Kind of tribute to the street people. A shout against the injustice told in a visual form, and very few words.

During a fever dream, a lost girl journeys to a dream like land, where she is haunted by winter festivities.

A mysterious sketchbook is found that hints at a legendary tribe that are descendants from Gods. While researching this tribe, various artists are interviewed and compared to the trials and tribulations of this group.

Something truly fantastic is happening here in Santa Cruz. This film documents the creative imagination bursting forth from students attending UCSC's class Prophecy Against Empire, from a contemporary dance beneath the redwood trees, to a rejuvenation of Logos Bookstore. It is about an intellectual adventure with ancient roots that bloomed in the 1960s with figures like Santa Cruz's own Norman O. Brown, and recently culminate with the study of the poet William Blake.

Whatever happened to those lovable little witches and wizards once they graduated from magic school? They grew up. This film focuses on the once prim and proper Harley Ranger, her spiral out of control and what caused her to do so.

Filmed and edited over a five year period of time, and shot across several states from the Midwest to the Northeast to the South, Hayes' film is an experimental documentary in the form of a dreamscape.