“An Organization of Dreams” is a surreal excursion into the human psyche, with puzzles and mysteries to be untangled. It is not about Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung, however.

McMullen’s film is a thought-provoking experiment inviting the viewer to browse the “sea of consciousness” of the film’s characters, as well as real people who play themselves in An Organization of Dreams, such as outstanding French philosopher Bernard Stiegler and South American philosopher Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, among others.

The film, starring one of the most versatile French actors, Dominique Pinon, revolves around several characters, each of whom eventually appears to be not quite what they seem on the surface.

An Organization of Dreams is a poetic mélange of untold stories and evolving tales. It is not a matter of facts, but the question of the interpretation of one’s fantasy, really.

Dominique Pinon in “An Organization of Dreams”

The creator of “Ghost Dance”, “Zina”, and “Resistance”, Ken McMullen was friends with one of the leading philosophers of the 20th Century, Jacques Derrida. He also happened to meet Alfred Hitchcock, with whom he talked about psychoanalyses and cinema.

The director describes his latest film, An Organization of Dreams, as a “fusion of many cultural influences”.

In fact, the film is akin to a Russian Matryoshka doll, which has a bigger doll, in there is another smaller one, and so on.

Untangling individual stories incorporated into one plot, the filmmaker is engaging the viewer into some sort of intellectual investigation – not just into the film character’s lives, but into our own private experiences as well.

“In this particular film we did intrude on real people’s lives in the sense that the actors went into these contexts with Bernard Stigler and others. The choice of entering there was an attempt to draw out some of the underlying issues in contemporary culture,” McMullen said in an exclusive interview with RT’s Valeria Paikova who caught up with the artist during the Moscow International Film Festival.