{"id":409,"date":"2016-11-16T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/?p=409"},"modified":"2016-11-16T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:55:13","slug":"new-films-and-books-by-agnieszka-piotrowska-with-ben-tyrer-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/2016\/11\/16\/new-films-and-books-by-agnieszka-piotrowska-with-ben-tyrer-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"New Films and Books By Agnieszka Piotrowska, with Ben Tyrer and others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychoanalytically inspired books and films launched at Birkbeck<\/strong><\/p>\n

On 18th November at 6pm, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image<\/a> will be showing Agnieszka Piotrowska<\/a>\u2019s documentary film\u00a0Lovers in Time or How We didn’t get arrested in Harare<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2015), followed by the launch of her book Black and White: cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe<\/em><\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(co-edited by Agnieszka Piotrowska and Ben Tyrer<\/a>) both just published by Routledge.<\/p>\n

Professor Valerie Walkerdine said the following about the\u00a0Black and White<\/em>\u00a0monograph:<\/p>\n

Agnieszka Piotrowska comes to Zimbabwe as \u2018the subject supposed to know\u2019 \u2013a position of privilege, albeit unwanted, stemming from her whiteness, undermined by her gender. \u00a0She interrogates her own experience, attempting to refuse the place of the knowledge, to engage with what it means to tell a story without claiming to know. Beyond black and white, she peers into the grey \u2013 the unrepresentable, coming to the recognition that she cannot know, because knowing is so compromised, that engaging with it is challenging, raw, visceral. That she approaches this not knowing through an arts practice is paramount \u2013 it is the work together, the embodied creative work of making, that allows the unrepresentable to begin to make its painful emergence. A brave and important book.\u2019-<\/p>\n

Valerie Walkerdine, Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University, UK<\/p>\n

And Professor Caroline Bainbridge noted the following about the The Unrepresentable<\/em>\u00a0collection:<\/p>\n

This anthology sets out to ‘do the impossible’ in interrogating the paradoxes of unrepresentable and unspeakable experience. Drawing together an impressive array of writers from diverse fields including those of clinical practice, film and literary studies, post-colonial theory and cultural analysis, it weaves a complex matrix of ideas grounded in the work of psychoanalytic thinkers as diverse as Freud, Lacan, Bion, Malabou, Winnicott and Meltzer. The essays are lively and compelling, offering new perspectives on themes such as trauma and embodiment, silence and invisibility in the digital age of media, the psychodynamics of touch, voice, gesture, love, grief, adoption, and anxiety. A wide range of textual material embracing literature, cinema, poetry, language, meta psychology and metaphysics, provides the basis for philosophical and psychological commentary that is often astute, and the daring inclusion of creative work premised on personal experience acts as an emotional coup de foudre. Piotrowska and Tyrer have curated a cracking compendium, one that seduces and challenges in equal measure, and one that will surely become essential reading for anyone interested in the riches of psychoanalytic enquiry.<\/p>\n

Caroline Bainbridge, Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis, University of Roehampton, UK<\/p>\n

The event is currently booked out<\/a>, but please email the organizer Mathew Barrington (mbarri02@mail.bbk.ac.uk) as there may\u00a0be cancellations.<\/p>\n

To coincide with these book and film launches, Reframing Psychoanalysis<\/a> presents the below text and films by\u00a0Agnieszka Piotrowska.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Agnieszka Piotrowska<\/strong><\/p>\n

Below\u00a0are embedded two short fiction films that I wrote and\u00a0directed. Both are discussed briefly in the Black and White<\/em> monograph, but will not be screened at the 18th<\/sup> November event. Both deal with gender relations but also experiment with a filmic language that contrasts rigid ideas and set values with more fluid relations, ones open to new possibilities.<\/p>\n

The Suitcase (2015)<\/em><\/p>\n