Alex Karpovsky & Teddy Blanks Launch Short Film Series SHRINK
By: Caryn Robbins
Alex Karpovsky & Teddy Blanks Launch Short Film Series About Therapy, "SHRINK"
Featuring Successful Artists Recounting Their Experiences, Series Premieres on National Psychotherapy Day. Therapy takes time. The self-knowledge and understanding that patients take away from the therapeutic process can be profound and invaluable, but it takes countless hours before those discoveries manifest. Sometimes it even takes years.
In the first season of Shrink:
Sarah Silverman talks about her childhood depression and passes along some of her therapist's most helpful aphorisms. Susan Orlean tells us how her decision to get a divorce finally allowed her to start telling her therapist the truth.Natasha Lyonne confesses that she's not really a big fan of therapy, although it has provided her with one life-saving bit of wisdom.Gary Shteyngart endorses Freudian Psychoanalysis, which gave him the courage to finally release his first novel, and in the process gives every would-be writer some choice advice.Kimberly Pierce gives a masterclass on psychodrama, a therapeutic approach that involves role-playing.Lena Dunham reveals that extensive therapy - and keeping herself very, very busy - helped her manage her Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Watch the entire series of Shrink at Spielbergs.video
Alex Karpovsky has directed numerous feature-length films and TV shows. As an actor, he played the role of Ray Ploshansky on HBO's Girls and has appeared in over fifty films, including the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar. Teddy Blanks is a co-founder of the Brooklyn-based design studio CHIPS, where he creates title sequences for film and TV. He is also a singer and songwriter, and has composed film scores for Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture and Alex's film Red Flag. Together as Spielbergs, Alex and Teddy have directed music videos, commercials, short films and a segment about therapy called Last Session for Amazon's The New Yorker Presents starring John Turturro and Charles Grodin. Percussionist Jesse Cohen and guitarist/vocalist Eric Emm are Tanlines, an electronic music and indie rock duo from Brooklyn, New York. Tanlines has released two critically acclaimed studio albums: Mixed Emotions (2012), and Highlights (2015).
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