Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream, Chloé Zhao, Jessie Buckley, and Agata Gryzbowska
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'Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream' is the debut book by Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, actor Jessie Buckley, and photographer Agata Grzybowska, created during the making of Zhao’s latest film 'Hamnet' (2025).
Rooted in the expansive dream-work that shaped Zhao’s creative process, the book emerges from a series of artistic rituals shared between these three collaborators, through which Zhao’s cinematic storytelling, Buckley’s mesmerising writings, and Grzybowska’s haunting photographs were made. Brought together in this book, they conjure a parallel telling of the story of Hamnet, the son of William Shakespeare.
'Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream' unfolds as a quiet companion to the film: not a document of its making, but a powerful reimagining that exists somewhere in the threshold between the worlds of waking and dreaming, reality and illusion, life and death.
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'Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream' is the debut book by Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, actor Jessie Buckley, and photographer Agata Grzybowska, created during the making of Zhao’s latest film 'Hamnet' (2025).
Rooted in the expansive dream-work that shaped Zhao’s creative process, the book emerges from a series of artistic rituals shared between these three collaborators, through which Zhao’s cinematic storytelling, Buckley’s mesmerising writings, and Grzybowska’s haunting photographs were made. Brought together in this book, they conjure a parallel telling of the story of Hamnet, the son of William Shakespeare.
'Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream' unfolds as a quiet companion to the film: not a document of its making, but a powerful reimagining that exists somewhere in the threshold between the worlds of waking and dreaming, reality and illusion, life and death.
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