An eighteenth century notebook from the Western Himalayan Hills has recorded in it dreams as omens. Scenes from the waking memory of the artist seem to have enlivened dreams from a bygone era.

Amit Dutta’s ingenious vision is perfectly captured in this eclectic experimental short. A bountiful confluence of animation, mythology, miniature paintings, and 18th-century texts, Drawn from Dreams can be best understood as a tangential summation of his diverse artistic interests.