Samuel Karow

It's been eight days since the clown first showed up in Green Bay, WI. Now, over the course of one night, four different groups of people cross paths with the clown everyone calls "Gags" and his true intentions are finally revealed.

Five distinctive people, each with a flimsy coping strategy, find themselves stuck together after an accident.

A young man seeks the unknown in the marshes of Central Wisconsin.

A reclusive woman sees a homeless man drawing with chalk on the sidewalk. She takes pity and invites him in, only to realize he can't stop painting pictures. That was many years ago.

The Dream Portal is an experimental self-portrait exploring fetishism, body image, and identity through raw, analog visuals. Using vintage tech and no digital effects, the film evokes the nebulous intimacy of memory and dreams—where shame and desire blur into something hauntingly honest.