Rêves de poussière: A Nigerien peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in northeast Burkina Faso, Africa. He quickly finds out the gold rush ended twenty years before and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit. Dreamer: A Native American Shaman travels to a spiritual location to complete a vision quest. The visuions returned are of the future toc ome, which depict horrible atrocities to mother Earth and mankind.

French collection. Title from disc label. Rêves de poussière originally produced in France and Canada as a motion picture and released in 2006; Dreamer produced as a motion picture in the United States in 2000. Wide screen 1.78:1.

Rêves de poussière = Dreams of dust (2006) / un film de Laurent Salgues 86 min.) -- This month's short film: Dreamer (2000) / a Digital Bench production ; written, directed and produced by Raymond E. Spiess Jr. (10 min.)