Dreams Rewired review – marvellous tech film full of where-did-they-get-that? imagery

Directors Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode and Manu Luksch rewind a century of footage, revealing our mania for technology is nothing new

Every generation thinks that it is the one who - wait, hold that thought, I'm getting a text. Where were we? Yes, technology. It changes the way we work and play and interact, but does it change the way we think? The way we perceive reality? The way we dream?

Dreams Rewired is a marvellous essay film by Austrian and German directors Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode and Manu Luksch that rewinds a hundred plus years to show, among other things, how our current communications mania isn't so new. First with the telephone, then early cinema, the magic of wireless radio and, finally, television, Dreams Rewired bombards the senses with a thorough and clever montage of found footage from the 1890s to the pre-war era.