Daydream Therapy de Bernard Nicolas se déroule sur la musique envoutante de Nina Simone, intitulée "Pirate Jenny" et raconte comment un employé d'hôtel s'échappe du manque de considération par la force de son imagination.

Réalisateur, scénariste, Directeur photo, Monteur et Producteur : Bernard Nicolas

USA, 1977, 16mm numérisé, n/b & couleur, 8 min

Bernard Nicolas' Daydream Therapy, set to Nina Simone's haunting rendition of "Pirate Jenny" poetically envisions a hotel worker's escape from workplace indignities through vivid fantasy.

Activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas's Daydream Therapy 1980 is a fantasy of black resistance to everyday exploitation.

Structured in parallel to its striking soundtrack, the film escalates from Nina Simone's restrained version of Pirate Jenny to the Afrocentric free-jazz of Arche Schepp's Things Have Got to Change. The film is one of the key rediscoveries of the UCLA restoration project, a fantastic response to everyday oppression and a militant call to arms.

Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor : Bernard Nicolas

USA, 1977, digital video, transferred from 16mm, b/w & colour, 8 min