Sleepy

The right to be here is our entry into the film and animation category; a speculative architectural short set in a future institution that preserves ordinary expectations that society allowed to disappear. A conservator reviews seven exhibits: the right to dwell, trade locally, linger without purchase, play in shared streets, browse a public market without surveillance, see the stars, and remain in one’s home. Each use is displayed as an isolated artifact, stripped of the relationships that once made it part of daily life. When the custodian and his child begin using one of the exhibits the conservator realizes these uses might not actually be extinct. After her decision to not classify these uses as extinct, the partitions vanish and the exhibits reconnect as one living street, then begin to reappear within the city showing that preserving these uses is a choice. The film asks whether a place is truly preserved when it can only be seen, and whether public life survives only when it can still be practiced.