Time: 7:30 PM
Place: New Center for Psychoanalysis
Cost: $15 per film without CE credits; $20 per film with credit.
CE Credits: 2.5
Crimes & Misdemeanors
April 11, 2008
This 1989 release is Woody Allen's tragic-comic meditation on guilt in a universe without moral force. Martin Landau, a successful doctor, contemplates murdering a former mistress who threatens his easy life while Woody Allen, an unsuccessful filmmaker, contemplates having an extramarital affair. A subplot involves Allen making a film about his successful, conceited brother-in-law (Alan Alda). This film, alongside Annie Hall may be one of Woody Allen's greatest achievements.
Alice
June 6, 2008
Woody Allen strikes again in 1990 creating Alice starring Joe Mantegna, William Hurt, Mia Farrow, Alec Baldwin, and Cybil Shepherd. This film followed Crimes and Misdemeanors, explores the theme of moral disorder with a comedic palate and a whimsical mood. Allen adds a wizard figure of inscrutable wisdom and power who manifests the childish wish for an omnipotent guide in the face of danger.
Discussants: Thomas Brod, M.D. is on the faculty of the New Center, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, and conducts a private practice in West Los Angeles.
Apurva Shah, M.D. divides his year practicing in Lancaster, CA and teaching in Ahmedabad, India. He trained in Adult and Child Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYC, and was a candidate at the NY Psychoanalytic Institute prior to returning to India.
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Water
October 5, 2007
Canadian academy award nominee 2006.
Water is a gem of a film by Deepa Mehta, a wonderful example of the power of great film-making to carry us into unknown worlds and leave us enlightened and delighted/disturbed. Its political message about suffering caused by religious fundamentalism (here, Hinduism and its treatment of child-brides until the middle of the last century) is a subtext carried through the emotional harmonics of a forbidden-love story (heterosexual*) and the caring of women for each other.
*Deepa Mehta's prior film was Fire, which explored the bond of love that developed between two women in a matrilineal household.
Co-Discussants: Thomas Brod, M.D. & Apurva V. Shah M.D.
Apurva V. Shah MD is a graduate of Gujarat University Medical College, India, and completed adult and child psychiatric residency/fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, USA. He was a candidate at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for two years before returning to India. Since 1996 he has divided his time between practise in Los Angeles and India (where he is Director of an NGO specializing in analytically oriented training for psychotherapists in Ahmedabad).
Art, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis
A Special Afternoon in conjunction with
the Museum of Contemporary Art,
New Center for Psychoanalysis,
Los Angeles Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Studies,
and the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
Sunday, June 3, 2007 2-6 pm
Location: MOCA Geffen Contemporary
152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90013
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the foundations and legacy of feminist art on an international scale. . WACK! focuses on the crucial period 1965-1980 and is on view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA from March 4 –July 16, 2007.
Panel with Audience Discussion 2:00 -4:15 pm
Thomas M. Brod, MD (moderator)
Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, PhD Eva Hesse’s “Hang Up” (1966) - Art, Psychoanalysis and Feminism.
Brandon French, PhD Feminism, Film, and Psychoanalysis
Tamar Simon Hoffs Groundswell: Feminism and Art School in the 50’s/60’s.
Carol Mayhew, PhD, PsyD Culture Shifts: Mutual Influences of Psychoanalysts and Feminists
Please note: The Panel will be held in the auditorium next door to the WACK exhibition, at the Japan-American Museum’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, 111 N. Central Avenue.
Gallery Discussions 4:30-6:00 pm
Psychoanalysts—trained by the MOCA educational staff to facilitate small, spontaneous, on-site discussion groups— will stand by individual art work giving psychoanalytic “docent” tours.
Reception (by invitation) 6:00-6:45 pm
New Center for Psychoanalysis Extension WACK! Art Feminism and Psychoanalysis MOCA June 3 2007
