Thursday 7 May, 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
Three films by Christine Noll Brinckmann
Die Urszene (The Primal Scene), Ger, 1981 (6mins)
Dress Rehearsal & Karola 2, US/Ger, 1980-81 (14mins)
Empathie und Panische Angst (Empathy and Panic Fear), Ger, 1989 (38mins)

Shown in London for the first time in their newly restored condition, three rare films by avant-garde German filmmaker  Christine Noll Brinckmann extend the relationship between identity, psychoanalysis and filmmaking itself in painstakingly observant, witty, and moving studies.

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