Love, lies, bleeding. Cinema, psychoanalysis and blood

Presentation: Linda D’Ambrosio

Date and time: Wednesday, November 6th, 19:00 h

Venue: Sala Equis

Entradas: Free admission until capacity is reached.

Tipo actividad: Workshop

Participants:

• Eva Hernández, teacher and researcher
• Marta Pérez Adroher, psychoanalyst
• José Manuel López-Agulló, teacher and researcher

Moderator: Eva Hernández

Glass and Weronika Tofilska have directed and written a film that leaves us full of questions: Can love do it all? Is there a truth that runs through the film? Is blood the price of love? Both Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brien give wonderful performances as two women in love who seem to fight against their destiny, yet love, violence and death constantly meet. In this colloquium, we bring together some concepts from psychoanalysis to discuss the fundamental enigmas posed by the film: desire, love, violence, life and death drive, family, homosexuality. Participants in the colloquium: Eva Hernández, teacher and researcher, Marta Pérez Adroher, psychoanalyst and José Manuel López-Agulló, teacher and researcher.

Eva Hernández-Martínez is a researcher and lecturer in film analysis at the Complutense University of Madrid. A double graduate in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication, Eva has dedicated herself to the study of cultural products with a special focus on the female and homosexual position in film. She has made numerous contributions as author, editor and coordinator to books exploring current issues in communication. With a strong interest in the use of social networks and new technologies from a psychoanalytical approach. Coordinator of several cultural events in the field of communication such as the H Congress.

Marta Pérez Adroher holds a degree in Psychology and is a specialist in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Expert in psychoanalysis and culture. She is currently coordinator of the psychotherapy programme at FUNDHOS aimed at people at risk of social exclusion and is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is also dedicated to the academic field, she is a PhD student, her thesis is about the ethics of psychoanalysis. She has published several works on human rights, feminism and migration.

José Manuel López-Agulló holds a PhD in Artistic, Literary and Cultural Studies from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master's degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Complutense. He is a lecturer on the subjects Communication Theory and The Digital Society and principal researcher of the group Profiles and Strategies of Commercial Communication (PECC) at ESIC University. Expert in Textual Analysis in the cinematographic and advertising audiovisual field based on semiological and psychoanalytical studies.