What You See Is Where You’re At
What You See Is Where You're At
In 1965, a community of about twenty people, including R.D. Laing, moved into a large old building in the East End of London called Kingsley Hall. Over the next five years, the leaders of anti-psychiatry and their former ‘patients’ lived together, collectively exploring the definitions of madness and its relationship to social convention and the family.
The film is made as a collage of ‘found’ and archived sound and film recordings, re-appraising its relevance to contemporary society, and the culture of oppressive psychiatry and multi-national pharmaceutical companies.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
Let’s Try to Find out What Goes on in the Male Barracks
Symbolism is the bridge between Romanticism and Modernism. Theory embodied in a diary-like video essay.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 28'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL