Ordinary men remain safely outside in the dry meadows of their masculine games. And most heroic is the poet, perhaps guided as he is (and taunted) by that blessed damozel, his muse, whose name is Alchemina. Only a hero dares risk his life by entering the realm of the feminine powers. Within this labyrinthine grove the dream wood mysteries take place, the tests, the encounters, the rites of the Goddess in her many forms. And somewhere in the wilds of Animandra there is a magic wood known as Broceliande, the Perilous Forest.
Somewhere (at the center of the world) there is an island called Animandra, or the Kingdom of Her. Somewhere there is what there has always been: No single film in the whole of American avant-garde comes as close as this one to the source of trance film, Cocteau's Le Sand d'Un Poet." - P. "Dream wood alludes to several myths– Hippolytus, Apollo, Sisyphus, and Narcissus are seen passing in the background of different scenes, but these allusions become witty intrusions into the otherwise thoroughly personalized vision. A spiritual odyssey into a dreamscape where a poet hero sets forth to rescue the bride of his soul.
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