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Next screening:
American Psychoanalytic Association National Meeting,
San Francisco, January 28, 2026

After a breakdown in her twenties, the filmmaker returns decades later to the psychiatric hospital where she was once a patient—seeking to understand how that experience shaped her life, her art, and her voice. Learning to Speak is not a story of overcoming, but of becoming—an exploration of how one makes meaning from the fragments of a life.

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Run Time: 50 minutes

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Screenings:
2026
American Psychoanalytic Association National Meeting, San Francisco
Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

2025
Meliora Film Festival, Quad Cinema, NYC
Association of Psychoanalytic Culture & Society, Rutgers University
COPA Health, Phoenix, AZ
13th Annual Bion Conference, New School, NYC

In other news:
I’m featured in an article in Wired magazine about AI and therapy - participating in an experiment designed to raise questions about this emerging frontier. It’s a wild ride. Contact me if you would like a pdf of the article.

DIRECTED, WRITTEN, PRODUCED, EDITED
Michele Beck

CAMERA
Sebastian Currier
Pawel Wojtasik
Donnie Rogers
Andrea Rogers

EDITOR
Adam Zucker

MUSIC
Sebastian Currier

SOUND DESIGN & MIX
Quentin Chiappetta

COLOR GRADING
Bjorn Bellenbaum

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Dot Rose
Carrie Rubinstein

THANK YOU
Edward Shapiro, MD
Eric Plakun, MD
Samar Habl, MD
Marilyn Charles, PhD
Jane Tillman, PhD
John Zollinger
Aaron Beatty
Lisa Lewis
Diane Heckman
Michael McCarthy
Jill Gibbons
Maggie Mailer
Ed Orbach
Claudia Jaul

SPECIAL THANKS
Jorge Calvo

VERY SPECIAL THANKS
The Austen Riggs Center

WITH DEEP GRATITUDE
Anton Hart, PhD

©2021 Michele Beck. All rights reserved

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