Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016
Oct 28, 2016–Feb 5, 2017

"Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 . . . looks at the incredible ways that artists have manipulated and re-imagined the moving image."
—Paper Magazine

"Evolving Images."
—The New York Times

"As the line between artist and filmmaker becomes ever less distinct and new technologies ever more accessible, a show devoted to artist’s films seems not only timely but overdue."
—ARTnews

"From hand-painted films to a 3-D video projected inside a dome, the Whitney delivers a multisite high-tech exhibition."
—Vulture

"Visitors will have a chance to consider how these artists played with color, touch, music, light and darkness, animation and two versus three dimensions."
—Newsday

"Dreamlands . . . also includes a small number of works of German cinema and art from the 1920s with a strong relationship to, and influence on, American art and film."
—The Jewish Voice

"[Dreamlands] is informative, filled with diverse pleasures, rewards hours of viewing time and reflects a commitment to film in all of its forms maintained by no other New York museum."
—The New York Times

". . . an exhibition of expanded cinema, including installations, environments and drawings by Oskar Schlemmer, Stan Vanderbeek, Pierre Huyghe and Hito Steyerl."
—The New York Times

"Dreamlands traces this experimental history to the present day, in all its dazzlingly optical, spatially immersive glory."
—The Wall Street Journal

"The Whitney’s Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 should venture into new territory, spanning over a century and encompassing both commercial and avant-garde endeavors in film . . .."
—The New York Times

"Highlighting the advances, both stylistic and technologic, in cinema during the last century, the exhibit will feature animation, 3-D visuals, and installations that use real-time data feeds from the internet."
—NY Press

"Beyond making people question the materiality and ephemerality of the filmic image and the cinema apparatus, Burchill and Monti’s series will ideally provoke visual and sensory immersion."
—The Creator's Project

"The Moving Image Reimagined in Immersive Exhibit Dreamlands."
—Flavorwire

“Feelings are Facts: A Neuro-Cinema at the Whitney Museum”
—Art Zealous

"Laid out in a gentle maze of hallways, rooms and open spaces, the show itself has a dreamlike feel, inviting exploration and discovery."
—The Wall Street Journal

"It’s about the expansive possibilities of the digital age, the new ways the motion picture...can be an immersive, multidimensional experience, perceptually, physically and conceptually."
—The New York Times

"The works in the program feature the study of complete darkness experienced through the retinas and our body. It also explores the materiality and ephemerality of the filmic image and the cinematic apparatus."
—Blouin Art Info

"The way over the last century artists have dismantled and rebuilt the concept of cinema, creating through screens, projections and darkrooms, new space-time worlds."
—Vogue (Italy)

"The exhibition connects different historical moments of cinematic experimentation via video installation, sculpture and 360-degree camera projected against a cardboard geodesic dome."
—Fader

"Dreamlands at the Whitney Museum: Between Illusion and Reality"
—The Wall Street Journal

Interview with exhibition curator Chrissie Iles
—Mousse Magazine