That remit certainly encompasses CocoRosie, the US freak-folk and fractured dream-pop band based around the half-Cherokee sisters Sierra and Bianca Casady.
The potent and harrowing second half recounts the real life story of her parents, and the incalculable ways in which the war fractured their dreams and psyches and left them stranded in the bush in Africa, eking out a meager existence on a tiny farm in Rhodesia.
Time and identity fracture; dreams merge with reality; people seem, and in some cases are, interchangeable.
His dreams were fractured and irrational; ugly beaked birds figured in them, crowds of noisy people, great heat.
With Olympic trials looming, she figured her dreams of Sydney fractured as well that day.
A number of Seton players, whose dreams had been fractured by Amaker's departure, sat in the audience yesterday and listened for clues on how Orr would help put the program back together.
But then the unimaginable happened: A nasty hit fractured my kneed and crushed my dream of playing in the NFL.
Before the "dream team" of Kevin and Julia fractured into mulish remonstrance, Gillard maintained sufficient trust to be able to wander in and out of Kevin's gumnut room at will.
Its self-titled 2007 debut had promise — part dark, part fractured — but its 2009 follow-up, "Machine Dreams," was, in places, almost hopelessly twee.
Its form reflects its subject matter: it is alive with ghosts, fractured, full of the winds of change, half-remembered dreams and barely articulated ideas.
Yet something remains — a Feuillade-like devotion to the femme fatale, caught in the bewitching, fractured footage at the movie's end: a producer's nightmare, and a fan's enduring dream.
