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The Rorschach inkblot test, created by Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach, is a projective test consisting of ten images (five black
and white, two black and red, three multicoloured). An interpretation is made by the psychiatrist based upon the response from the patient, after a thorough study
of the images two times.

In this video, the test have become a live image, moving in at out of itself, as if it was trying to communicate to or hypnotise its subject. Sometimes the image
becomes recognisable, revealing a person or a landscape, just to become abstract again. The intepretation of the rorschach test differs, leaving its ability as a psycho-
analytical tool open to question. Actually, most of the intepretation tools used, do not consider the content of the response to the images the main source of information,
but rather the reaction time, handling of the cards etc. I.e. a long response time can indicate depression.
That would also indicate a consensus of movement and gaze, of perception and time. But what if the rorschach system
was put into another cultural context? Would time and the interpretation of perception and movement create totally different results?

Year: 2004
Duration: 4:00 minutes
Editing: Jette Hye Jin Mortensen
Music: traditional japanese koto

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