This film is presented by Silents, Please! STL and will feature a special introduction from SPSTL’s Kate Stewart.

“Fascinating as the first ‘serious’ attempt to deal with Freudian psychoanalysis on the screen, Pabst’s film is also notable for bringing a solid intellectual perspective to the ‘expressionist’ idiom of contemporary German movies.” –Time Out

Considered to be the first film to explicitly depict psychoanalysis, symbolically and practically, SECRETS OF A SOUL (1926) is a fun trip into the filmic psyche of a man who is struggling with unwanted thoughts, compulsions, and feelings of inadequacy which leads him to the couch of his friendly neighborhood analyst.

G.W. Pabst, one of the greatest filmmakers out of Weimar Germany, does a beautiful job of using the camera and filmic language to convey the experience of dreaming and dissociative fantasy. This film is not an explicitly Expressionist film, but its influence is felt throughout.

Accompanied by short films that feature dream logic and sequences.

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