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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Kia ora<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Please join us on <b>Tuesday 1<sup>st</sup> October</b>, between <b>10am-11.30am (check <a href="https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=2193733,5,2191562,2643743,2147714,6173331&h=2193733&date=2024-9-15&sln=10-11&hf=1" title="https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=2193733,5,2191562,2643743,2147714,6173331&h=2193733&date=2024-9-15&sln=10-11&hf=1">your
timezone here</a>)</b> in <b>Burns 4 </b>and on <b>Zoom (register <a href="https://forms.gle/By5pW8PdNpEh96Rk8" title="https://forms.gle/By5pW8PdNpEh96Rk8">here</a> for zoom link)</b> to watch Sophie Serber's short film 'Success Breeds Success, Or You Need
To Be A Friend To Get A Friend'. Sophie will join us on Zoom after the screening to discuss her work. Please circulate with other interested parties.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Sophie's film is currently exhibited at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-q3Pr2yIHR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==" title="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-q3Pr2yIHR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">Mery
Gates</a> in Brooklyn, New York. Please email me if you would like access to the press kit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">This is the first screening 'Success Breeds Success ...' in the antipodes.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">'Success Breeds Success, Or You Need To Be A Friend To Get A Friend'</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Success Breeds Success is a series of works that address the production and negation of consumptive desire in the context of digital pornography. Serber draws from her experience working
as a performer in the porn industry — a period during which she began to conceptualise pornographic proliferation as akin to a cellular process of productive self-cannibalisation. <br>
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The video cuts together fragments of porn videos in which she has performed, and uses tracking technology to extract bodily movements to apply a digital mask over the figures. Alongside the extracted scenes, she relays her own experiences via a voice-over spoken
by an animated figure of an apoptotic cell. This work examines how our relation with porn mirrors forms of disordered consumption in other spheres of life, and the roles digital platforms and their feedback loops play in eliciting, predicting and thwarting
desire.<br>
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In an accompanying publication, Serber draws from a database of correspondence, Tweets, and web analytics from her time as a porn performer to explore the abstraction and manipulation of desire, drawing analogies with biological processes. The biological perspective
engages with the topic of digital porn consumption to question the limits of containment when it comes to desire and the self.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">About Sophie Serber</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Sophie lives in Amsterdam. Her experiments with thresholds of certainty stem from an interest in the correlation between belief and denial, and how that parallels the courtship between disgust
and seduction. In all her work, she's into notions of control of the self, within broader societal structures and power dynamics. Her work explores the interplay between control, identity, and dissociation and how they can be reconciled within an individual
existing in this world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">Rosemary Overell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Media, Film & Communication Programme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The University of Otago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dunedin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Latest publications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2024). ‘<i>Don’t Worry Darling</i>: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’.
<i>Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society</i> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis'
<i>Can't get you out of my head</i>: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.),
<i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223"><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed</span></a></i>.
(pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2022).
<a href="https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Methodological Masturbation</span></a>.
<i>LACK: punctual musings</i>. 26<sup>th</sup> August.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222"><span style="color:#0563C1">LinkedIn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">Rosemary Overell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Media, Film & Communication Programme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The University of Otago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dunedin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">9054<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Latest publications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2024). ‘<i>Don’t Worry Darling</i>: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’.
<i>Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society</i> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis'
<i>Can't get you out of my head</i>: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.),
<i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223"><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed</span></a></i>.
(pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Overell, R. (2022).
<a href="https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Methodological Masturbation</span></a>.
<i>LACK: punctual musings</i>. 26<sup>th</sup> August.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222"><span style="color:#0563C1">LinkedIn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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