FILM
The film ‘Blue Hour’, directed by Yasmijn Karhof, explores hypnagogia—the liminal state between waking and sleeping, where thoughts linger as dreams take hold. Fascinated by how emotions and daily experiences shape this poetic in-between moment, Karhof follows two characters, portrayed by Hannah Hoekstra and Dragan Bakema, in their separate bedrooms as they prepare for sleep. Driven by shared longings, they each drift into the same dream, briefly connecting their solitary worlds.

Alternating between reality and dream, the film blurs the tangible and the imagined. In waking moments, the characters leaf through a photo book of oases and islands before drifting off. As sleep unfolds, their dreams—sparked by this shared visual thread—echo one another: her body, beneath a specially designed plaid, transforms into an oasis amid sand dunes; his becomes a rocky island in the sea. These landscapes serve as portals, aligning their desires and imaginations across the divide.
The oasis and island embody both isolation and possibility—pristine yet adrift, untouched yet unmoored. Yet they also reflect a shifting world: the oasis parched by drought, the island swallowed by rising waters. Are these places slipping away, preserved only in images and dreams?
 
PLAID
The plaid, a collaboration between Merel Karhof and Yasmijn Karhof, woven at the TextielMuseum Tilburg, serves as both a prop in the film and a standalone sculptural object. In the film, it bridges the characters’ dreams, melding with their bodies to form imagined landscapes. While the film reveals two experiences within a single dreamworld, the double-sided plaid unites two opposing worlds in a single object: the reverse side mirrors the front as a negative image, symbolically and physically binding two perspectives. The jacquard weaving technique reflects this duality, blending craft with concept in a tactile form.
 
DREAMBOOK
Designed in collaboration with Roosje Klap, the book holds the dreams’ origins—photographs of oases and islands that ripple through the film and plaid.  While the film’s narrative shaped the plaid’s design, the plaid in turn influenced the script—and so too the dreambook. Featuring images of the oases and islands from the characters’ dreams, which also inspired the plaid’s design, it serves as a portal to their shared dreamworld. Its pages draw both characters and viewers into this realm, where memory, desire, and imagination intertwine. The dreambook doubles as a prop and an autonomous artist’s book, forging a inextricably link between the three objects.