Beyond the Nation State I Want to Dream deals with the construct of the European nation state, examining the binaries and mechanisms of exclusion at work in the constitution of a “we.” Consisting of slowly decomposing and recomposing computer-generated images, the video juxtaposes apparently innocuous representations of national identity with places marked by the intersection of nationhood, colonialism and imperial conquest. Such imagery is accompanied by a dream-like monologue in which the narrator tries in vain to escape from a present that perpetuates the historical violence of the nation state in the most mundane aspects of everyday life.