Event: Screening of the Short Documentary Hysterical Girl
Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Time: 12:00
Venue: Francis Ebejer Hall, Lecture Theatre 2(LT2)
This is a cordial invitation to a film screening of the short documentary Hysterical Girl, which will be followed by a discussion, to be hosted by the , on Tuesday, 16 May 2023 at 12:00 (CET Malta time), at the Francis Ebejer Hall | Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2).
The event will be 1 hour long (film 13 minutes + discussion 45 minutes), and will be introduced by , Head of Department.
Refreshments will be served after the screening.
Hysterical Girl (2020), directed by Kate Novack, is a short documentary that views Sigmund Freud’s singular female patient case study through a modern lens.
“Hysterical Girl is both a documentary and a work of metafiction, in which Freud’s view of Dora, as reported in his book, is contrasted with Dora’s view of herself. But because there’s no extant document in Dora’s own words, no unmediated account of her experience, Novack (who also wrote the film) has to create one herself—and she does so, throughout the film, with a fictionalized version of Dora, dressed and styled in today’s manner.†(Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2021).
Registration is free, however kindly confirm your participation by email .
