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In 1980, film theorist Annette Michelson took on the role of actor, playing a patient in analysis in Yvonne Rainer’s 1980 Journeys from Berlin/1971. It was not her first time in films—Michelson had bit parts in movies while in Paris in the 1950s—but it was the first time she had worked with a director she had written extensively on. Michelson’s two-part essay on Rainer’s choreography and film, published in 1974, was the first sustained analysis of Rainer’s work and it set the terms for understanding her practice for the decade to come. Churner examines the performative qualities of Michelson’s theoretical engagement with Rainer and argues that Michelson’s own performance is the culmination of her particular blend of theory and praxis.

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Analyst as Analysand: Annette Michelson as Patient in Journeys from Berlin/1971

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  • Rachel Churner

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In 1980, film theorist Annette Michelson took on the role of actor, playing a patient in analysis in Yvonne Rainer’s 1980 Journeys from Berlin/1971. It was not her first time in films—Michelson had bit parts in movies while in Paris in the 1950s—but it was the first time she had worked with a director she had written extensively on. Michelson’s two-part essay on Rainer’s choreography and film, published in 1974, was the first sustained analysis of Rainer’s work and it set the terms for understanding her practice for the decade to come. Churner examines the performative qualities of Michelson’s theoretical engagement with Rainer and argues that Michelson’s own performance is the culmination of her particular blend of theory and praxis.