VOGUE OPENING NIGHT FILM
Dr Frank Ochberg is a psychiatrist and trauma specialist. He specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder. Cuban artist Tania Bruguera consults him after serving an eight months prison sentence. A dissident, she was accused of treason for a performance she was developing that was critical of the government. During her conversations with her therapist she analyses the revolutionary potential of art and how the short-term, spontaneous and transitory nature of performance art represents a means to criticise the Cuban government. Hershman Leeson's work often addresses the relationship between identity construction and technology, as well as questions of surveillance, civil rights, and censorship
Co-presented with Cine+Mas.