Starring Sigmund Freud (2012)

Name: Starring Sigmund Freud
Director: John Menick
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-11-01
Duration: 28 min
Cast: Sigmund Freud, Alan Arkin, Montgomery Clift, Alec Guinness

Documentary

Director: John Menick

Cast: Sigmund Freud, Alan Arkin, Montgomery Clift, Alec Guinness

Runtime28 min

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Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011, the video collects the dozens of appearances that the character of Sigmund Freud has made on small and big screens. After the 1950s, when pill vials replaced analytic couches, the father of psychoanalysis found a second career impersonating himself in everything from a John Huston clunker to a Star Trek episode. The video suggests that maybe it is in front of the camera, alongside surgically enhanced starlets and CGI chimeras, that “Herr Doktor” will find his final resting place. This video was produced by the Kadist Foundation and commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13).

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Starring Sigmund Freud is a unique documentary that explores the father of psychoanalysis' unexpected film career, directed by John Menick in 2012. The video's clever compilation of Freud's many on-screen appearances, from John Huston films to a Star Trek episode, offers a fascinating look at how this iconic figure became a pop culture icon in unexpected ways.