Date: Saturday 10 November
Time: 11am
Venue: Strand Arts Centre
Tickets: £20 (£15 concession)
The Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations, in association with BanterFlix, is delighted to present a screening of Steven Soderbergh’s psychological sci-fi film Solaris (2002), starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone. The film is a re-make of the original Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 cult classic and will be followed by a discussion of some of the film’s powerful themes from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Psychiatrist (George Clooney) is summoned to a Space Station to investigate some strange phenomena happening on board. The film asks important questions about the nature of being. When we love someone, who do we love – that person, or our idea or memory of that person?
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The event will take place on Saturday 10 November – at the Strand Arts Centre, on the Holywood Road in East Belfast, beginning at 11am sharp. There will be a pre-film interview-style conversation between Doctor Eve Watson (Lacanian Analyst from Dublin) and BanterFlix’s Jim McClean.
The screening of the film will be followed by a lunch break then the afternoon session will offer an in-depth presentation by Lacanian analyst Dr Eve Watson – exploring themes of unresolved grief, melancholia, the emotional trauma of loss and what happens when one’s sense of reality begins to unravel. There will be the opportunity for a Q&A session prior to the event finishing at 4pm.
Dr Eve Watson is a member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI), and has previously been involved in co-ordinating the annual Dublin Psychoanalysis and Film Festival. She works in private practice in Dublin, where she also lectures on various third level clinical training courses.
Dr Watson is the current editor of Lacunae, an international journal for Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the editor of the collection ‘Clinical Encounters in Psychoanalysis’ (Punctum, 2017).
Tickets are priced at £20 each, are available directly (online or in person) from the Strand Arts Centre. A concessionary rate of £15 is also available. Lunch is not included, but the Strand Arts Centre is adjacent to the Belmont Road, which is very well served in terms of coffee shops and restaurants.
This is a continuing professional development event, and certificates of attendance will be available upon request from Mary Cairns at: mary.cairns19@gmail.com.