Screening Information

Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
Start Time: 4:25 PM
Runtime: 4 minutes 18 seconds
Location: MIX Center — Theater 1
50 N Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201

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Film Description

The Dreaming World unfolds through a series of animated vignettes layered over live-action spaces, transforming familiar environments into reimagined landscapes. Suburban streets are de-paved and rewilded, cars disappear, and once-quiet neighborhoods become vibrant with life.

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Blending animation and environmental storytelling, the film envisions a future shaped by ecological restoration and creative rethinking of urban spaces, inviting audiences to imagine what a more sustainable and alive world could look like.

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Director:

Alexi Scheiber is an experimental animator and multidisciplinary artist whose work has been featured in film festivals worldwide, including SUNCINE: Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival, Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Fest, and FREDD: The French International Environmental Film Festival.

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As Artistic Coordinator at The Crow’s Nest, an environmental art incubator in Baltimore, she co-curated Ecocide: Nature in the Shadow of War. She holds a BFA in Animation from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Her work combines animation, papermaking, painting, installation, and poetry to explore the psychological and environmental impacts of living in an age of mass extinction. The Dreaming World is part of her larger body of work focused on rewilding, climate awareness, and imagining new ecological futures.