The Dreaming World / Alexi Scheiber

Alexi Scheiber
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
 
The Dreaming World, 2025
Film, 4:18 minutes
 
As an immersive, multidisciplinary work, this film combines animation, papermaking, painting, installation, and poetry to explore the psychological weight of living in an age of mass extinction. Centered on The Dreaming World, the work moves through transformed suburban landscapes, where invasive species like English Ivy serve as a quiet marker of ecological change. Through layered vignettes that blend animation with live-action spaces, paved environments are reimagined as rewilded ecosystems, offering speculative visions of renewal. 
 
Alexi Scheiber is an experimental animator and multidisciplinary artist whose work has been shown at film festivals including SUNCINE: Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival, Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Fest, and FREDD: The French International Environmental Film Festival. She serves as Artistic Coordinator at The Crow’s Nest, an environmental art incubator in Baltimore, where she co-curated Ecocide: Nature in the Shadow of War. Scheiber received her BFA in Animation from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2025.