Thursday 23 April, 2009

Anthony McCall, Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall, Ivan Ward, Jane Weinstock (Jay Street Film Project). US, 1979 (40 mins)

The film programme focuses every season on a single work in a variety of contexts. The first season presents the collectively made Sigmund Freud's Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity, now brilliantly restored 30 years after it was originally shown. Precisely reflecting the feminist and formalist concerns of its time, this critically important film constructs a complex relationship between sound, image and text via a conversation about psychoanalysis with interludes of television adverts juxtaposed with pornography. 

Accompanying this screening
Live in the auditorium and via remote participation in New York, the filmmakers illustrate a cultural, social and political context for Dora…
  

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