A late afternoon dream anticipates a transformative experience

As Laurie and her ex-husband lie in bed, taking an afternoon nap, a large balloon resting on her belly inflates under the sheet and explodes. A humorous time-lapse of her developing pregnancy, A late afternoon... suggests a dream she is having about the transformative experience of impending motherhood. An open book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, lying on Laurie’s forehead, implies her conflicted feelings around using television technology as an art-making tool while shielding her eyes from the late afternoon light. The soundtrack is the “Liebestod” from Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde.