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Shakespeare and ptsd
In 2015 Stephan Wolpert approached psychologists from NYU with his experiential approach using Shakespeare’s work as the basis for a therapeutic treatment for ptsd. Shakespearean verses possess the Elizabethan chain of being when veterans sit together and immerse themselves in monologues that match their personal trauma they take on the shared missions of healing in…
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Heavenly Pussy
IDEAS METHOD LOOK FOR A FALLEN FILM SARAH MILES Animals have a territory and humans have an unconscious. Jean Baudrillard And Cinema is the royal road to the cultural unconscious Jack Goldstein ‘A cat is never on the side of power.’ Chris Marker Heavenly Pussy will map associations and analogies to correspond to the logic…
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belle
My inspiration The Imitation of the Rose the central object in Clarice Lispector’s short story is the vase of roses the roses suggest many horizons they provoke an anxiety of indecision perfection isolation selflessness selfishess ‘Like an addict, she looked with faint greed at the roses’ tantalizing perfection‘ and in Belle de jour dir Luis…
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Wanda 1970
Isabelle Huppert describes Wanda as a film about Loden’s relationship to cinema itself and her relationship to herself. (She said all her films were an extension of herself, except there weren’t many, perhaps suggesting she wasn’t privileged with extension.) WHO KILLED MY SISTER? In her essay Wanda For Wanda Berenice Reynaud writes about what she…
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ENTER PETER
FILM FOUR OFFICES CHANNEL 4 HEADQUARTERS 2008 Felicity is sitting in a see through cubicle she can hear voices ‘I came up with that idea over coffee!’ ‘It’s a sure thing, we just need six more.’ VIDEO CLIP IT MIGHT EVEN BE KIND OF A RELIEF TO BE FINISHED MARILYN MONROE 2023 Enter Peter. She…
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THE VASE CINE BEAUTY
I began painting vases during lockdown. Importing anticeramic vases from china and using emulsion and acrylic paint and my photocopy machine to create collage. Reflecting on my cultural exposure with autobiographical references . In short, the pot, as signifier, is nothing other than a symbol of culture as a whole and holds the integral but…
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THE CAVE
Jean Louis Schefer’s object is a more elemental lure of moving images that is most acute in childhood and adolescence. Not a love of cinema so much as desire for it, a desire deeply tinged with anxiety. For Schefer, this is a central theme: The attraction to cinema is inextricable from fear. This experience, both ordinary…
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Scratch One Goddess
he thinks he was 7 or 8 when he first sees her helping out at the local hardware store she was the most beautiful over the years the goddess had begun to change to fade her shoulders slumped and life began to leave her eyes there were scratches on her wrists age 20 his car…
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WINDOWS AND WAVES
It will be such a blessing for me and many others to have an opportunity to share with you my concern over childhood sexual trauma. Correspondence with MD K E JUNG WINDOWS AND WAVES describes the tendency of symptoms to come and go increasing and decreasing in the severity related to withdrawal and ptsd. Where…
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JUSTICE FOR EVE THE UNSOLVED MURDER
UPDATE and now almost three decades later a call from a researcher working for writer and presenter Marcel Theroux who is developing a feature length doc for ITV. Murderees Eve Stratford Von Bork, Lynne Wheedon and another unsolved case are linked and are believed to be committed by a serial killer. And to quote Blue…
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