Category Archives: Video

Unmoorings

Word Count: 2,173

by Sokol Ferizi, Nicky Ni & Kymara Akinpelumi

Reflections from past members of the Stillpoint team on its life—and loss.

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With TIME IS JUST A MEMORY – VI
artwork by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER

Love with its numerous uses

Word Count: 511

by Vanessa Sinclair

Poetry on psychoanalysis and the language of love.

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With TIME IS JUST A MEMORY – XI
video by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER

https://vimeo.com/735782338

“I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” – A Manifesto

Word Count: 2,187

by Kara Kohn-Gardner & Carlos Padrón

An experimental, co-authored declaration of the potential of dreams and the unconscious hold for collective transformation.

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With FAINTING SPELLS
a video by SKY HOPINKA

The Last Word

Word Count: 1,262

by henry 7. reneau jr.

Poetry as an indictment of racism in the United States.

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With a video by ANIKA ROACH

https://vimeo.com/696915634

RETRACTING PLEXUS

Word Count: 713

by Dimitra Ioannou

Poetry revolting against the imposition of pervasive judgement under semiocapitalism, and gesturing to its ripe, hidden ruptures.

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With PLEXUS ELASTIC
a video by ANDREA GARCIA VASQUEZ

https://vimeo.com/690501925

IN-BETWEEN THE LAW AND TRANSGRESSION: DESIRE, ETHICS, AND SYMBOLIC DESTINY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

Word Count: 3,162

by Richard B. Keys

A tour through experiments in psychoanalytic writing and a consideration of desire and ethics within and outside the analytic situation.

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With INSIDE OUT
a film by SARAH KHAN

Ring the Bell

Word Count: 817

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

On emerging from solitude to feel again.

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With TOUDI
a video by BALLA MAL KASSÉ

HUMILITY

Word Count: 1,202

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

On the duality and split between softness and sorrow.

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With HYPERACUSIS (PART 1)
a film by SOPHIE HOYLE

GOOD EYE TO THE BOUGHS

Word Count: 1,005

by Lehua Taitano

Poetry on the fine line between birth and death, joy and grief.

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With REGENESIS: AN OPERA TENTACULAR (ACT 1)
a video by RIEKO WHITFIELD

https://vimeo.com/656188035

THE TENDERNESS OF THE CUT

Word Count: 1,954

by Vanessa Sinclair

A psychoanalytic take on the omnipresence of dominance, submission, and inaccessibility in our most intimate relationships.

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With SHEER-NAKED-AGGRESSION
a video by SOPHIE HOYLE

https://vimeo.com/652021651

LETTERS FROM MY CHILDHOOD

Word Count: 708

by Ojo Taiye

Poetry on the delicacy of intimate violence, as seen by a son.

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With an excerpt from AFTER MY DEATH / A MUTABLE DECISION
a performance by INDIRA ALLEGRA

Trust

Word Count: 560

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Cartesian doubt in the age of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and the non fungible token.

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With CURSIVE BINARY: “PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANITY”
artwork by SASHA STILES

https://vimeo.com/651685692

BLADE RUNNER (1982)

Word Count: 1,767

by Franny Choi

A lyrical takedown of anti-Asian racism and misogyny.

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With an excerpt from MYCEAQUA VITAE
a film by JOSÈFA NTJAM

Few Understand

Word Count: 3,230

by Kalen Iwamoto

Autofiction as a blockchain, from the blockchain.

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With MOVEMENT PORTRAITS
from THE BLACK MOVEMENT PROJECT
by LAJUNÉ MCMILLIAN

Nepenthe

Word Count: 684

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Silence as a salve for grief, from our Editor.

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With WTFRU? (PARTS 1 & 2)
a video by AMANDA SUCKOW

Reckless

Word Count: 791

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Riding the waves of desire, with a statement from our Editor.

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With SHRINE MAIDENS OF THE UNSEELIE COURT
a video game by TABITHA NIKOLAI

https://vimeo.com/562723716

THE DESICCATION OF CORAL

Word Count: 3,290

by Jamieson Webster

A tour through a dream, a rumination on the loss inherent to desire.

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With an excerpt from BEYOND THE NATION STATE I WANT TO DREAM
a video by DORINE VAN MEEL

https://vimeo.com/527721998

EVAPORATE

Word Count: 1,745

by Youmna Chlala

Fiction of the Pacific coast, family, and the beautifully tragic solitude of life.

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With FLIGHT MODE
a video by DAIVA TUBUTYTĖ

MOTHER

Word Count: 1,236

by Monica Sanborn

The story of a daughter who witnesses her mother’s loss of body and takes refuge in declarations of nothingness.

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With KASPALE’S PLAYGROUND
a film by SYOWIA KYAMBI

COSMIC GULF OF TONKIN

Word Count: 263

by Tao Lin

Poetry on the sinuous nature of reality, and the universe.

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With a video by RICK SILVA

Exit Strategy

Word Count: 1,195

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

What to do from the storm of the daze?

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With MOLOTOV COCKTAIL HOUR
a video by DAVID PETERKA

SHOWTIME [the poem also known as SHOWSTOPPER]

Word Count: 429

by Koleka Putuma

Poetry that defies the gaze of white dominance.

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With JOSEPHINE AND THE LEOPARD
a video by JADE MONTSERRAT & WEBB-ELLIS

https://vimeo.com/448898042

ANTHROPOCENE CROSSING

Word Count: 2,194

by Xin Wang

Finding solace in the virtual forests of the video game ‘Animal Crossing.’

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With GALAXY
a video by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER

ELEMENTAL CATASTROPHE: ECOPSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE VIRAL UNCANNY OF COVID-19

Word Count: 5,432

by Joseph Dodds

Coronavirus embodies the uncanny ecology that threatens our destruction—but also offers a pause in the headlong rush of our ecocidal civilization, opening possibilities of renewal.

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With POOL
artworks by SOLVEIG SETTEMSDAL

AI AND THE MISSING BODY

Word Count: 4,505

by Isabel Millar

A Lacanian exploration of Artificial Intelligence, and the body.

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With THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF BRASILIA
a video by GUERREIRO DO DIVINO AMOR

CAN IGNORING THE UNCONSCIOUS MAKE US FREE? SARTRE, EXISTENTIALISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS WITHOUT UNCONSCIOUS

Word Count: 2,212

by Mathilde Ramadier

What good is Existential Psychoanalysis today?

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With UNION (PART II: AFFECTIVE LABOUR)
an artwork by HANCOCK & KELLY

https://vimeo.com/369270414

THE SPACEMAN DISSOLVES

Word Count: 7,019

by Trevor Shikaze

In this short story, a damaged planet earth sends a spaceman to find a new home for humanity… with gruesome results.

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With PREMIUM CONNECT
a video by TABITA REZAIRE

NOTHING FOR NOBODY

Word Count: 4,490

by Maggie Ryan Sandford

Science isn’t funny, but it should be.

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With AMATEUR BOTANIST
a video by KOTRYNA ULA KILIULYTE

FISHING FOR FALLEN LIGHT

Word Count: 3,122

by Lora Matz

One psychotherapist’s journey from extreme poverty & domestic abuse, through institutional abuse & clandestine drug testing in the US psychiatric system, into transcendence & a life of healing.

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With WHEN WE WENT THERE WE WALKED THE PERIMETER
artwork by KATE HOLFORD