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On the face of it, Kneecap, the new film from writer-director Rich Peppiatt, is a fictionalised biopic of a Gaelic hip-hop group from Northern Ireland.

As the sublime new biopic Tish proves beyond all doubt, Tish Murtha is one of the forgotten heroes of late-twentieth-century photography. Murtha herself was a prodigal talent from the ruins of post-industrial Tyneside, whose pictures discovered the fun and pathos in an otherwise gloomy setting – her black-and-white photos lit-up by the sense of mischief, moodiness and defiance evident in the poses of her mostly youthful subjects.

In celebration of Tyneside Cinema’s new season ‘Dream Logic’, Reel Recommendations has decided to offer a historic journey through a century of cinema (starting later than the earliest origins of the medium, beginning instead in 1910 and travelling through to 2020) in pursuit of a fevered map of filmic dreams and dreamy films. Imagine yourself striding through the oneiric ages: a cinematic sleepwalker, dreaming with eyes wide open.