"Cinema in the Mind" (Kino im Kopf)

Exhibition by the Filmmuseum Berlin from September 2006

What fascinates the cinema audience about the fictitious worlds of images on the silver screen? How do directors tell stories about repression or breaking taboos? And: Is the experience of film more like intoxication or dreaming?

From September 2006 the exhibition "Cinema in the Mind: Psychology and Film since Sigmund Freud" (Kino im Kopf. Psychologie und Film seit Sigmund Freud) will be devoted to the complex relationship between psychology and film, the cinematic portrayals of psychic phenomena and the deeper connections between film and psychology. Both use associations, analyze and constitute identities. It is true of both film and psychology that many stories are driven not by the rational, but rather the subconscious, the desires and drives.

Until January 2007 visitors to the exhibition at the Filmmuseum Berlin will have the opportunity to put themselves "on the couch," to experiment with their own perceptions, to trace the steps of directors like Alfred Hitchcock, G.W. Pabst and Woody Allen, and to observe their work in a new light. And all of this is linked up to the latest findings from film history, psychology and neurological research.

This project is sponsored by Germany's Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes).

More information at www.filmmuseum-berlin.de.