RU198: ACTOR DAVID PATRICK KELLY & WRITER/ DIRECTOR RICHARD LEDES ON ADIEU LACAN
Rendering Unconscious episode 198.
This episode now available at Rendering Unconscious at Substack.
Rendering Unconscious welcomes David Patrick Kelly and Richard Ledes to the podcast!
The conversation revolves around the film “Adieu Lacan,” including David Patrick Kelly’s experience portraying Lacan. The discussion highlights the influence of Lacan’s work and his analysands’ experience of him, in particular Betty Milan, whose book is the foundation for the film. The discussion also explores Lacan’s influences, including his relationship to Joyce and surrealism, the film’s accuracy in portraying psychoanalysis, and the importance of Lacan’s human side.
New York City filmmaker, artist and writer Richard C. Ledes, has directed as well as written and produced a body of work that returns to a richly elaborated set of themes. His 2008 film The Caller, starring Frank Langella, Eliott Gould and Laura Haring, won the Made In New York Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and the BFI (British Film Institute) selected his 2012 film Fred Won’t Move Out one of ten essential films of the actor Elliott Gould. His films often draw on experiences within his own family of mental illness and forced immigration. For Ledes these have a relation to stigma and racism that needs to be reimagined in order to be remembered rather than assigned to oblivion. His visual style is further shaped by his experience-driven research into theories of ideology as well as into theories of individual and collective forms of madness. Follow him at Instagram | Twitter.
Image: Adieu Lacan
