Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972

As I´ve stated before I´m no fan of dr Freud and his theories about dreams, but today I´ll have to publish a link to a bunch of great art videos by the artist Zoe Bellof. The films are vaguely related to old Sigmund, but they are absolutely great! You have to go see them here at UBUweb (that, by the way, is a great web site if you are interrested in sound and video art)! Do yourself a favour and go there!

Great Thanks (!) to Hakan who sent me the link! Cheers mate!

Here´s a text about the videos that I stole on UBUweb:

"In 2009 the Coney Island Museum invited Zoe Beloff to create an exhibition to celebrate the centennial of Sigmund Freud's visit to Coney Island. She titled the show "Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972.

The Society might be considered something of an urban myth. They were mostly working people from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Beloff describes them as "visionaries, who, undeterred by lack of finances or professional training, decided to explore their inner life, to share their dreams with each other and in doing so attempted to free the psyche from the constraints of class and of cultural and sexual mores of their time.

In 1926, the Society's first president and founder Albert Grass proposed that members attempt to recreate their dreams on film and analyze them. Here is an excerpt of his speech from the first prize giving ceremony, "Sigmund Freud has written that the royal road to the unconscious lies in our dreams. Each night we are plunged into a fantastical world as amazing as anything we see in Saturday night Photoplays. But how to capture the most effervescent of experiences so that they can be properly analyzed and recorded for future generations? The answer, my friends, lies in our new tools, the Cine-Kodak Camera and the Kodascope Projector enabling us to reenact our dreams on film, producing a perfect reproduction of our mind's nocturnal wanderings, the strange adventures of our souls. As it will surely be soon with sound and color to perfect the illusion, we will open up our darkest dreams to the bright light of reason" "