Film and Psychoanalyse

Films

On the Psychoanalysis of Film Movement


The current season of the IPU seminar series "Film and Psychoanalysis" is located in the City Kino Wedding and deals with the dialogue between film psychoanalysis and dance studies. In previous semesters, film and media scholars Marcus Stiglegger and Reinhold Görling led the dialogue with film psychoanalysis, which is represented at the IPU by Andreas Hamburger. This summer semester, dance scholar Veronika Heller will add her perspective.
 

As previously, the seminar consists of a Sunday matinee at the cinema. There, mostly current films are shown that inspire both film-psychoanalytic and movement-analytic perspectives. We do not try to put film characters or even filmmakers on the couch, but to engage attentively and reflexively with film as a work of art. In doing so, we will also focus our attention on body staging and movement this semester. For both of our approaches it is central to let the immediate film experience have its say. Therefore, we invite the audience - both from the IPU seminar and all film fans from Berlin's urban society who are interested in psychoanalysis and movement - to stay a little longer after the screening and talk with us about the film.

Movies are made for the cinema, not for being at home!

Tickets can be purchased through City Kino Wedding

Films

With ravishing verve, a couple dances their way out of reality - an intoxication that draws increasingly wider circles. The film is told from the point of view of their son, who floats along in the magical realm of his parents, and yet also remains a real child.

 

In haunting imagery, Clare Denis stages an etude on Melville's tale Billy Budd. She creates impressive choreographies of longing and brokenness and puts on stage our own experience of strangeness and beauty in the colonial-postcolonial space.

 

An acclaimed film about the downfall of a star conductor, which is nevertheless anything but intuitive. We will search whether beneath the play with stereotypes a deeper level of meaning can be grasped.

 

This multiple award-winning, classic romantic drama is also multi-layered in its dramaturgy and audience appeal. It's about movement - and it's about coma. In a dialogue between film psychoanalysis and dance studies, we want to explore precisely the dimension in which the film "moves" us.

 

21 May 2023 | 3pm -6pm

4 June 2023 | 11am - 2pm

25 June 2023 | 11am- 2pm

9 July 2023 | 11am - 2pm