Even in My Dreams is a variant of the "coming-of-age genre," but it otherwise departs dramatically from the conventional. In this sparely
drawn psycho-drama the protagonist is anything but the usual confused
teenager prone to alternating fits of sexual excitement and histrionics in dealing with the first sparks of sexual awakening. Michael (Richard Reade), an elderly,
world-worn widower, in his pattern of mundane daily urban meanderings, happens upon a Tom of Finland doll in a sex shop display window. His bemused subconscious fascination with the erotic doll is the trigger for a belated and reluctant sexual self-discovery at the end of a lifetime of sexual repression.





A series of dreams and stream-of-consciousness vignettes moves Michael from surprise to hope to love affair ending in violence and betrayal.
Approx. 8 Mins. Color / 2008 English

Written and Directed by: 
Flavio Alves
Produced by: 
Randall Martusis
Director of Photography: 
Brian Fass
Starring: 
Richard Reade, Beau Hauser,

Celia Howard, Burt Panitz, Erin Sullivan,
and David Hodorowski.