EVEN AS A SHADOW, EVEN AS A DREAM

Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream is the debut book by Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, 2020), actor Jessie Buc kley, and photographer Agata Grzybowska, created during the making of Zhaos latest film Hamnet (2025). Rooted in the expansive dream-work that shaped Zhaos creative process, the book emerges from a series of artistic rituals shared between these three collaborators, through which Zhaos cinematic storytelling, Buckleys mesmerising writings, and Grzybowskas haunting photographs were made.