Untitled (A Different Time)
Synopsis
Untitled is a metaphor for a sleeping woman in a state of dream or of psychological disintegration. She gradually reassembles, suggesting either a movement from deep dream-like sleep or more likely a pull back from the decision to die. The human capacity to survive terrible terror, whether on an individual level or as a collective persecuted group, sometimes seems to defy understanding.
Bruno Bettelheim, a child psychoanalyst, survived Dachau and Buchenwald but in peacetime, at a mature age, decided to end his own life. It is this choice: the choice, and the possibility, of escaping psychological terror, that enables humans to reconstruct themselves from even extreme disintegration. To paraphrase Nietzche - the thought of suicide gets one through many a long night.
Details
- Year
- 2006
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 4 mins 30 secs
- Format
- DVD, PAL video
- Director
- Helen Fletcher
- Editor
- Helen Fletcher
- Director of Photography
- Helen Fletcher
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 23rd March 2006
