Because the Night will be an animated film, a contemporary artwork in the form of an animation, based on actual dream/mind-wandering reports and scientific research derived from the Covid on Mind Study.  In this piece, filmmaker Jordan Baseman aims to explore the phenomena of pandemic dreaming, to contextualise the Covid in Mind Study participant data through conversations, interviews, exchanges and ongoing collaborations with the scientists/architects of the Covid in Mind Study, to develop and transform these captured auto-ethnographic dream experiences into an entertaining artwork in the form of an experimental animation that discusses what it means to have experienced this time through recording, studying and celebrating the significance of dreams in relation to mental health and our environment.

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Jordan is a visual artist, filmmaker and Reader in Time-based Media at the Royal College of Art. He received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an MA from Goldsmith's College, University of London.

Alejandro Ezquerro-Nassar recently completed a PhD in Psychology at the Consciousness and Cognition Lab, University of Cambridge (2021). His research involves the use of EEG and statistical modelling techniques to investigate the neural-cognitive dynamics of the sleep onset period as well as the phenomenology of hypnagogic states. He also serves as Research Impact Manager for Dream in Cosmos, generating and maintaining collaborations between researchers and artists. He currently supervises the knowledge transfer and public engagement activities for the Dream in Cosmos group.

Tristan Bekinschtein is a biologist, Master in Neurophysiology and PhD in Neuroscience, Buenos Aires University. In 2011 he founded the Consciousness and Cognition Lab at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is a Wellcome Trust Fellow and a Turing Fellow. Tristan works on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness, primarily on the fragmentation of cognition as we lose consciousness while falling asleep or getting sedated; on the cognitive and neural differences between conscious states; and on the interaction between attention and consciousness in health and disease.

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