"Are you a Dreamer?"

Waking Life is a 2001 film written and Directed by Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Fast Food Nation).

It was shot with hand-held video cameras, then rotoscoped animated on G4 computers. We're talking low-budget here, folks.

This animation style essentially refers to painting the individual frames of live-action material. The effect is a very trippy, semi-real, pushed down the rabbit hole experience. The best part about it, however, is that the original quality of the footage is of little consequence, meaning it can look professional even if shot on your cell phone.

This film is post-worthy for several reasons, but mainly because of its subject matter. Rarely does a film ask you to question so many things without giving you an enforced narrative (i.e. The Matrix).

Its documentary/experimental art style is is a class by itself.

It forces you to ask the question - what is our waking life? Could it be a dream as well? What, if anything, is reality?

If you like existentialism, check this one out.

Peace.