Filming Bion’s ‘A Memoir of the Future’
Edited by Meg Harris Williams
Paperback (Published)
(December 2015)
ISBN: 9781782203841
5.94 x 9.06 inches
Price: $36.00
In stock
The contents of this book represent a series of experiments in dramatizing Bion’s A Memoir of the Future, the primary one being an unfinished film begun in India in the 1980s and directed by Kumar Shahani, epic artfilm maker. Includes screenshots from the film with video extracts in the e-book.
The contents of this book represent a series of experiments in dramatizing Bion’s A Memoir of the Future, the primary one being an unfinished film begun in India in the 1980s and directed by Kumar Shahani, ‘epic’ artfilm maker, most of whose films have been produced in Hindi. The film was inspired and initiated by Bombay psychoanalyst Udayan Patel, and sponsored by the Roland Harris Educational Trust. The cast of actors included Jalal Agha, Tom Alter, Robert Burbage, Nicholas Clay, Neil Cunningham, Carol Drinkwater, Peter Firth, Nigel Hawthorne, Shona Morris, Jonathan Page (as a child), Angela Pleasence, Juliet Reynolds, and Alaknanda Samarth. The filmscript and a commentary are here included, together with a narrative poem written for Alaknanda Samarth who played the Ayah of Bion’s childhood, and a playscript written for Tom Alter who played the Father. The play is due to be first performed in Bombay and Delhi in February 2016. An appendix reprints a psychoanalytic study of the Memoir by Donald Meltzer, who was closely involved in the production of the original film. The book is illustrated by screenshots from the film and the ebook contains video extracts.
Introduction Meg Harris Williams 1. Filmscript: A Memoir of the Future Kumar Shahani and Meg Harris Williams 2. Commentary on the film Meg Harris Williams 3. Playscript: The Becoming Room Meg Harris Williams 4. Poem: Confessions of a Superego Meg Harris Williams 5. Three lectures on A Memoir of the Future Donald Meltzer Credits for the film A Memoir of the Future,
Introduction
Meg Harris Williams
1. Filmscript: A Memoir of the Future
Kumar Shahani and Meg Harris Williams
2. Commentary on the film
Meg Harris Williams
3. Playscript: The Becoming Room
Meg Harris Williams
4. Poem: Confessions of a Superego
Meg Harris Williams
5. Three lectures on A Memoir of the Future
Donald Meltzer
Credits for the film A Memoir of the Future
Attics and Basements
The Evocative, Expressive and Embracing Functions of Homes and Other Human Dwellings
Linking Objects and Linking Phenomena
A Study of the Forms, Symptoms, Metapsychology, and Therapy of Complicated Mourning
