August 21, 2006 + February 1, 2007 + German director Peter Klueger's classic breakthrough digital video "Blue Lola" is now viewable on iPod. Experience the dream artist Blue Lola's last frantic moments in her existential world recorded in QuickTimeDream¨ format. Rumor has it that BlueLola has somehow returned and a sequel is in the works.
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"The Blue Lola"
Format: QuickTimeDream¨
3:43 Minutes
Cast: Jennifer Russell, Ken Moody, Peter Klueger
Idea, story, concept, production, direction: Peter Klueger

Slain by a computer virus, we discover the Blue Lola collapsed in her laboratory. The mystery of this reclusive life unravels as we take an intimate journey into the dark side of her soul as revealed in her dreams. Amazingly we can view her last dream. She has pioneered a method of recording her dreams on a "memorizer" and downloading them to her computer. With these digitized dreams she creates a revolutionary new art form that allows her to interact with the outside world, as well as relive her most vivid fantasies. The format she uses is QuickTimeDream¨, and like QuickTime VR there are still bugs to be worked out. Lola's dream art is published on the "Hello World" net. This intravenous entertainment system is linked directly into the sight and psyche of the consumer.

One of the most fascinating aspects of dreams is that they are without borders or limitations; there is no right or wrong and no censorship. Lola's dreams reflect the relationship of the subconscious mind and the world behind the monitor. The medium of the digital dream reveals disadvantages not unlike digital video. The imperfections are glaringly revealed: skipped frames, drop outs, and glitches. Cyber-noise mixed with visual noise from old film footage is used to create the effect of looking into a blurry subconscious.

Director Klueger says: "To further dramatize the feeling of digital dreaming, the video is produced entirely within the digital domain using the very dream-like elements of cut and paste, clipboard, inversions and loops. In fact, the entire Lola project is one big loop because they have philosophical depth. Birth and death, ups and downs are examples of the
human experience as a series of loops or cycles."

As an allegory to the broken promises of high-tech hype, "The Blue Lola" represents the inability of technology to fulfill our most personal and soulful needs. C.G. Jung believes that modern man has lost his soul, and must discover his own personal mythology, rituals, dreams and individual fantasies in order to regain it. Clearly, nothing can replace the
individuals need to invent his own inner-reality.