2008 | United States | Animation

Boy/Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein's "Narrative of a Child Analysis"

  • English - 5 mins
  • Director | Steve Reinke
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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"The content of the rogue computer animation Boy/Analysis is perfectly illustrated by the integral title, namely, a drastic abbreviation of Melanie Klein's 1961 key study on child psychology. The initial 93 sessions the psychoanalyst booked with a ten-year-old boy, are reduced down to 16 by Reinke, and thoroughly illuminated. Tumbling around, appearing and disappearing against a black background, are text fragments. A score from Benjamin Britten orchestrates this semantic ballet in which the most arbitrary associations can be made. Colour illustrations, a copy of a drawing of the child that was recorded as an appendix in Klein's book, and comparable naive sketches that Reinke received from artist Emily Vey Duke, follow as coda.

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