A film by Ann Course
Sound and assisted animation Paul Clark
Technical support Karl Cresser
With assistance from the Animation Department, London College of Communication

In her first video work since 2004, visual artist Ann Course manipulates a restricted palette of language and imagery to suggest the instability of personal awareness, interpersonal relations, shifting roles and identities. It is also her first dialogue-based work, although the words come out as sparse as the lines of her rudimentary, yet powerful drawings.

SLR photographs of drawings put in a line.

Transference is a phenomenon in psychoanalysis characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings for one person to another. One definition of transference is 'the inappropriate repetition in the present of a relationship that was important in a person's childhood.' Another definition is 'the redirection of feelings and desires and especially of those unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new object.' Still another definition is 'a reproduction of emotions relating to repressed experiences, especially of childhood, and the substitution of another person ... for the original object of the repressed impulses.'
Transference, Wikipedia, 24 May 09

Most psychodynamic approaches centre around the concept that some maladaptive functioning is in play, and that this maladaption is, at least in part, unconscious. The presumed maladaption develops early in life and eventually causes dissonance in day-to- day life. The psychodynamic therapist first intervenes to treat the discomfort associated with the poorly formed function then helps the client acknowledge the existence of the maladaption, working with the client to develop strategies for change.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Wikipedia, 24 May 2009

Paul Clark: born London 1965, lives in London with Ann Course and daughter Marnie. Works in London.