This module examines how cinema draws on the vast range of cultural representations of fantasies and dreams. It begins by first introducing students to theories of both dreams and the relationship between the film screen and dreaming. Following this it studies how filmmakers have utilised dreams, visions, and the imagination in cinematic imagery and narratives to explore topics such as childhood, the structure and purpose of myths, folktales and fairy-tales, madness, the construction of the concepts of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’, the instability of memory, history, and hallucinations, time travel, the supernatural, utopian and dystopian societies, and death. All of these topics investigate the cinema’s ability to represent and explore the musings of the mind and efforts to makes sense of and communicate ideas about what has been and what could be, how societies could be better or worse, and what we are as individuals and a social species. To examine these subjects the module explores the works of numerous international film directors, such as Bergman, Cocteau, Deren, Kurosawa, Murnau, Tarkovsky, and Svankmejer.