Dolls with Issues

Cowboy Dreams

April 2009 •English

Gunfighter Wild Bill is haunted by dreams in which he faces a soulless menace out for vengeance. As Bill is driven to share his nightly terrors with other cowboys in the firelight, their reactions prove to be enlightening and humorous.

Spellbound

November 1945 •English

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

History and Stories of Psychoanalysis

September 2016 •Portuguese

The film consists mainly of interviews with readers of Freud in Brazil and several places in Europe, and touches on topics such as history, translation, culture, language and, especially, Freud himself.

Temptation of Sainthood

January 1993 •English

The story of a man who believed God was changing him into a woman so he could save the world.

Freud: The Secret Passion

December 1962 •English

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

The Soul Keeper

January 2003 •Italian

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

Libido

August 1965 •Italian

A young man visits his ancestral home accompanied by his guardian and their wives, where he is plagued by the memories and influence of his murderous, psychosexual father.

Transformation

April 2016 •English

A brief, abstract exploration of identity.

My Name Was Sabina Speilrein

March 2002 •English

The history of psychoanalysis is littered with the discarded psyches of the women whose diagnoses were key to the fame of the great masters. One such woman was Sabina Spielrein. Unlike the rest, she didn't vanish forever from history. Elisabeth Márton's film relates, restages and remembers the tragic story of Spielrein's life as gleaned from a box of her papers discovered in 1977 in the cellar of Geneva's former Institute of Psychology.

Vast

Invalid date •English

Vast is an experimental short film inspired by the works of Maya Deren and Peter Tscherkassky, telling the story of a woman trapped in an inescapable cycle which forces her to confront repressed memories as her unconscious rises to the surface. Shot with a range of different amateur cameras and employing various techniques of filmmaking, Vast plays with time and space to bring this Freudian nightmare to life.

Oh Sh*t!

March 2020 •German

Sellig : Épisodes

October 2021 •French

Life Support

November 2021 •English

A seeker finds himself distressed by his dependencies and is constantly searching for a way to survive without his life support.

ONE Second From 1000Episodes of ONE PIECE

November 2021 •Japanese

Here and There

January 1961 •Japanese

Here and There (1961) fuses live-action and animation and was screened at Three-Person Animation 2. Musique concrète and electronic sounds made by modulating everyday noises such as flush toilets are interspersed throughout the work. Contrasts between opposites, as encapsulated by the title – between live-action space and animated space, between mundane sounds of daily life and bizarre noises – and the war between the sexes, a signature theme in Yōji Kuri’s work, are also palpable in the juxtaposition of musique concrète and scat singing. (CJC).

Gahan Wilson's Diner

July 1992 •English

On a dark and stormy night, a rookie trucker is asked by his supervisor to check up on an eerie nightmarish diner where a ghoulish cook and a giant monstrous chef try to put him on the menu.

A Gentleman of Leisure

July 1923 •English

Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London. While at a restaurant, he notices pretty Molly Creedon (Sigrid Holmquist). He sees that she has a photograph inscribed "with love" and as a joke, he makes a bet with his pals that he will obtain an autographed picture from the girl within 24 hours. But getting the photo is harder than it seemed at first, and he finally asks a burglar to help him out by stealing it.

Márcio Donato - Eu Odeio Viver

November 2021 •Portuguese

Kung Fu Dragon

December 2019 •English

A chosen boy with magical powers is helped by a dragon in his quest to defeat the evil demon Nian.

Penn & Teller: Try This at Home Too

July 2020 •English

Filmed entirely at the homes of Penn & Teller and their friends around the world, "Penn & Teller: Try This At Home Too" is the second show from the magical duo and showcases new magic Penn & Teller and their magician friends have developed at home.  Penn & Teller teach viewers how to do an array of tricks themselves and are joined by celebrity guests including Howie Mandel, Piff the Magic Dragon, and the cast of "Nancy Drew" including Kennedy McMann, Scott Wolf, Riley Smith, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, and Tunji Kasim. We will also get a chance to see viewer videos submitted showcasing versions of tricks they learned on Penn & Teller’s first “Try This At Home” show.