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Tell Me Everything (excerpts)
Tell Me Everything (2013, 50 minutes, HD video, 5.1 Digital Surround Sound)
Written, directed, and edited by Joshua Thorson
Music by Nick Hallett
With Robert Osborne, Kyle deCamp, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Therese Plaehn, Pat Palermo, nicHi douglas, and Joe Westmoreland.
An extended meditation on the human psyche and its social effects delivered by two fictional theorists presenting divergent lectures
on the topic at a conference. Each lecture is punctuated by "real life" observations, poetry, and an extended two-part session between
a patient and her analyst, adapted from D.W. Winnicott's seminal Playing and Reality.
Premiered at EMPAC, 2013.
Additional related material below.
Discussion of "Tell Me Everything" video project from dissertation:
Thorson, Joshua. Tell Me Everything: A Narrative Video Art Practice, UMI/ProQuest, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013.