Cheese Makes You Dream is an exploration of fossilisation – it’s the brittle, hopeful, can’t-dare-to-hope person one becomes when life is lived in a bubble of aloneness.  Jim is utterly alone. 

There’s a bit of Jim in all of us.  For me, this movie is made in the details, Jim’s details – the pulling back of a net curtain, the reveal of a Metropolitan police sign near the door bell, the meticulous laying of the table, the fingernails…  It is life in the details, the big picture in the little picture, self-expression in the minutiae.  And, to me, this is beautiful.

Duration:           5 minutes 30 seconds

(4 minutes 33 seconds excluding title and end credits)

Genre:              Drama

Process:            Colour

Aspect Ratio:       1.1:85

Original language:  English

Country of origin:   UK

Year:               2003 (post production completed July 2003)

Formats available:  Four 35mm prints (24 fps, combined optical stereo sound) , DigiBeta (PAL), Beta SP (PAL) and VHS (PAL)