REVERIES: THE MIND PRISON - Matt Barats and Anthony Oberbeck Interview - CUFF 2025

Christian Zyp interviews Matt Barats (writer/actor) and Anthony Oberbeck (writer/actor) about their film REVERIES: THE MIND PRISON. You can see the World Premiere as part of the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) Sunday April 20th, 2025 at 6:45 pm at the Globe Cinema. Director Graham Mason and Screenwriters/ Stars Matt Barats & Anthony Oberbeck will be in attendance.

REVERIES: THE MIND PRISON is a comedy movie/art film hybrid, a sprawling experiment in unbridled creativity and collaboration. Told through a combination of narrative scenes, abstract video montages, and meditative voice-overs, it’s best described as Aki Kaurismäki meets a lo-fi KOYAANISQATSI narrated by Steven Wright, or as Vulture magazine put it, “Like an Ayahuasca session conducted by Mitch Hedberg.” This is the third movie in a trilogy that includes the comedy art films REVERIES (2018, 46m) and REVERIES: GOING DEEPER (2020, 60m).

Matt Barats: https://www.mattbarats.com/reveries

Graham Mason: https://www.graham-mason.com/

Anthony Oberbeck: https://vimeo.com/anthonyoberbeck

Watch REVERIES: https://vimeo.com/288091227

Watch REVERIES: GOING DEEPER: https://vimeo.com/491265630