Essays
Cannes 2026: I find the market that takes place at the same time as the festival to be, on the one hand, a collection of amicable meetings between potential collaborators and colleagues and, on the other hand, to be haunted — like in the kinds of films Jacques Tourneur made in Hollywood in the 50s — by the feeling that we are like cattle in a slaughterhouse.
As someone who has spent years navigating the ecology of interpretation in which the works of Lacan re-engage with his readers, I am wary of what is usually referred to as «psychology. »
Asked after the screening of V13, what I thought Freud would have wanted to talk about, I started my answer by saying simply, “Gaza.”
Here is a video in which I talk about V13 in regards to the European Holocaust and the Genocide in..
Many of our universities in the United States have departments of Holocaust and genocide. We need ..
It is important to realize that—starting from the time Hitler came to power in 1933—the Nazis combined..
Sound familiar? Close. Right? Actually, Trump said about Senator Schumer on March 18th from the..
I have sometimes doubted my choice of No Human Is Illegal as the title of my 2017 film that I made about..
My family when I was growing up lived on a dirt road in Katonah, a small town outside of New York..
I received this message today. It was sent to the email address form on my web site. I want to..
While doing research for my dissertation which would become the research for A Hole In One, I met a..
Near the end of the millennium, some five years after leaving Paris, approaching the end of my time..
THE CALLER (2008), my second feature film, was based on a screenplay of which most of it was..
Last year when I was flying into Newark from Paris in the early part of the summer, our flight, just as..
I remember my father as a master of salad making. Perhaps this was due to his Greek heritage but..
I have been in Athens since the start of February and expect to be here at least until early May, working on..
At a major cultural institution in New York City, I once served on a committee that had been tasked with..
As many of you know, we have been having a hard time getting V13 into a top festival. Our historical fiction film..
In the spring of 1986, I took a trip from Paris to London, crossing the channel by ferry, to visit my friend John..
Thinking about finding an audience for the film, I remembered long ago hearing about a prop George Lucas..
With the actors strike having ended, I can finally take care of the Additional Dialogue Recording (ADR) that..
Betty Milan has published a book with the title “Adieu Lacan,” named after the film I made based..
Exciting news to share: For those of you who live outside the English-speaking world and have wanted..
Richard Hamon has made two documentaries that should be of particular interest to anyone who..
Richard Hamon a réalisé deux films documentaires qui devraient être particulièrement intéressants pour..
Antu Yacob on playing Gloria in ADIEU LACAN
David Patrick Kelly speaks about playing Jacques Lacan in ADIEU LACAN
Ismenia Mendes on playing Seriema in ADIEU LACAN.
Imani Oakley, candidate for the US Congress for the 10th Congressional District of New Jersey..