The Piano Teacher | series {Curtain Conversations} | screening and discussion
About the event
We invite you to the first meeting in the {Curtain Conversations} series, which we will inaugurate with a screening of “The Piano Teacher” directed by Michael Haneke.
This shocking study of the human psyche will serve as a starting point for a conversation led by Justyna Dworczyk. Special guests in the discussion will include Adam Lipszyc and Ewa Modzelewska-Kossowska.
Date: 11/03 (Wednesday), 18:30.
Tickets: 20 zł
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About the film:
“The Piano Teacher” is a study of the dark corners of the human psyche and sexuality, based on the prose of Elfriede Jelinek. The main character, Erika Kohut, is an acclaimed pianist and a strict music teacher who, despite her age, remains in a toxic, tension-filled relationship with her controlling mother. Her emotional and erotic life is marked by deep deficits, which she attempts to discharge through obsessive devotion to music, domestic quarrels and acts of self-harm.
Her hidden fascination with pornography and dark instincts is put to the test when a young pupil fascinated by her appears in her surroundings. The initial infatuation quickly turns into a dangerous, masochistic game for which the young man is not prepared. The director's cold, detached style builds tension that becomes an ideal starting point for a shared analysis of the dark recesses of human nature.
About the series:
{Curtain Conversations} is a series of film screenings combined with discussion. Psychoanalysis — as with other works of art — provides the film with a rich toolkit for examining and unraveling the phenomena addressed by cinema. The wanderings to which the human psyche so often succumbs can sometimes be explained using psychoanalytic concepts. Joint reflection and discussion can be an attempt to explore the functions and meanings of the titular curtain: does it serve to defend, reveal, or capture what eludes straightforward readings?
The series assumes monthly discussion meetings with special guests, overseen by Justyna Dworczyk.
Host and guests:
- Justyna Dworczyk — a certified therapist of the Polish Psychological Association, a candidate of the Polish Psychoanalytic Society, a doctor in film and theatre arts, and a graduate of the National Film, Television and Theatre School. She works in Warsaw and directs the Konteksty. Miejsce Psychoterapii centre.
- Ewa Modzelewska-Kossowska — psychoanalyst for adults, children and adolescents; training psychoanalyst and supervisor of the Polish Psychoanalytic Society; author of texts connecting culture and art with psychoanalytic thought. For many years, together with Adam Lipszyc, she has run the seminar 'Austrian literature and psychoanalysis' at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw.
- Adam Lipszyc — essayist and translator, working at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences; lectures at the School of Social Sciences, Collegium Civitas and the Franz Kafka University of Muri. Recipient of literary awards; he deals with the philosophical consequences of psychoanalysis, the philosophy of literature and twentieth-century Jewish thought. Recent publications: 'Freud: the logic of experience. Marańskie speculations' (2019), 'Melville. The Last Days of Identity' (2022), 'The Paper Nose of Literature. Writing and Psychoanalysis' (2024).
City: Warsaw.
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