Let’s Try to Find out What Goes on in the Male Barracks
Let's Try to Find out What Goes on in the Male Barracks
Symbolism is the bridge between romanticism and modernism. It’s time to apprehend that modernism was the fruit of intellectual scarcity, decaying towards the ultra-artificial on every level of civilisation. Its old-fashioned rigidity has to make place for a more spiritual concept of what a human being is and needs. Theory embodied in a diary-like video essay around three enigmatic males.
Also in this combined programme
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What You See Is Where You’re At
A disturbing collage of ‘found’ and archived sound and film recordings about the anti-psychiatry of R.D. Laing, re-appraising its relevance to contemp -
Bogman Palmjaguar
A bizarre and candid biopic of an ex-patient of the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, who now lives a hermit’s life in the Scottish Highlands.
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- Mini DV PAL
- Premiere status
- None
