L´après-midi d´Augustine / Augustines Nachmittag
Evelyn Rüsseler aka Bear Boy
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27 min – German, French B+K+S: Evelyn Rüsseler aka Bear Boy – P+V: Beastie Prod.
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sunday 14 oct 8 pm werkstattkino
4380 afternoons, which equals 12 years, Louise Augustine Gleizes
spent at Salpetriere Clinic in Paris, France being treated by Dr.
Charcot for ovarian hysteria and paraplexy.
She became Dr. Charcots favourite patient which created a most
delicate situation for her. The Doc believed in hypnosis as a method
aided by photographic documentation inducing a moment of shock
leading into therapeutic trance. Between 1873 and 1895 he created
the first photographic atlas on female hysteria. We must consider
that his therapeutic approach as well as documentation and public
presentation of cases in front of huge auditoriums put an immense
weight on the, mostly female, patients.
Freud, having been a student of Charcot, later came up with the
concept of the "talking cure“" known as psychoanalysis.
On the basis of imagery out of Charcots photo atlas combined with
lytographs leading the viewer into the inner worlds of the women the
film aims to make visible the deep pain caused by hospitalization,
therapy and constant violating of their bodily integrity and
intimacy.
Evelyn Rüsseler aka Bear Boy Born 1961, experimental filmmaker,. Produces films and video work on his friends, on Animal Transformation and dead Poets. Writes novels and performs the characters that spring up in his dreams. Lives in Berlin, Munich and on the Baltic Sea.
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| Films Notre Dame des Friches (for Piero Heliczer) 2017 (12. UX) – L´après-midi d´Augustine 2018 – Breath Death (disarmed) – Yoga für Frauen und Bären 2018 (13. UX)
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