Empathy
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Amie Siegel
Gigi Buffington
David Solomon
Aria Knee
Maria Silverman
Jennifer Scott James
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
An examination the tricky intimacy between psychoanalysts and their patients. Film interweaves a fictional narrative, documentary interviews, screen tests and a parodied tv documentary of the analyst's favorite piece of furniture--the Eames Chair--to look at issues of power, manipulation and the promise of empathy, patient and therapist disclosure, performance and identity, authority and gender, voyeurism, sexual exploitation, and the boundaries between truth and fiction.
Director
Amie Siegel
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States January 23, 2004
Released in United States Winter January 23, 2004
Released in United States January 23, 2004 (Film Forum; New York City)
Released in United States Winter January 23, 2004
