Bittersweet: An Exploration of Dreams with Desiree Melancon and Friends

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up—and this is a good way to start your Friday morning.

Bittersweet: An Exploration of Dreams with Desiree Melancon and Friends

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up—and this is a good way to start your Friday morning.

November 22, 2024
Words By Torment Staff Full-Length

The notion of dreaming is a hard one, but the idea of living out your dreams is a bit easier to wrap your head around. Desiree Melancon has been living out the dream of proffesional snowboarding for a while now, and she just tapped in some of Salt Lake's finest, as well as a few other heavy hitters, to illustrate what that all can look like.

What are dreams, really? We often grasp more about the vastness of the universe than the intricacies of our own minds, whether in dreams or waking moments. Bittersweet: An Exploration of Dreams offers a poetic and abstract reflection for the winter of 2023/2024. This exploration invites you to delve into the essence of dreams—what they are, how they feel, what they look like, and their significance. By examining the experience of living the dream, pursuing aspirations, and discerning what dreams are and are not, it suggests that dreams may be more than mere wishes whispered in the dark.

Featuring: Desiree Melancon, Egan Wint, Sierra Forcheimer, Iris Pham, Seb Picard, Katie Kennedy, Stefi Luxton, Darrah Reid-McLean, Bode Merrill, and Jack Coyne

Directed by: Ted Borland