Frames of Mind

Wednesday, December 20, 2006 - 7:30pm
Great Britain 2000. Director: Julien Temple
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek.

Pandaemonium is the delirious story of passion, betrayal, madness and addiction that binds two of history's most acclaimed poets: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The film opens in 1816, where Wordsworth (John Hannah), about to be named poet laureate, is throwing a lavish party. An unsteady Coleridge (Linus Roache), ravaged by an opium addiction, crashes to the floor

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 7:30pm
USA/UK 1990. Director: Jane Campion
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek.
Jane Campion's brilliant adaptation of Janet Frame's Autobiography

Originally conceived of as a television miniseries, Jane Campion's brilliant, heart-breaking three-part film adapts celebrated New Zealand author Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography. The first section, "To the Is-Land," tells of Frame's poverty-stricken childhood on a New Zealand farm, where she grows up chronically shy and awkward, acutely aware of being different, and finds refuge in books and writing. In the second section, "An Angel at My Table," she dutifully enrols in teachers' college, even though she desperately wants to be a writer.

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Wednesday, October 18th - 7:30pm
Canada 1976 . Directors: Donald Brittain, John Kramer
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek.
Special thanks to the National Film Board of Canada

English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) exorcised his demons through writing and gin, all the while fearing he would be engulfed by his fiction. Opening in sobering fashion with the inquest into Lowry’s “death by misadventure” (a coroner’s jury cited his death as “the result of combined effects of gin, barbiturates and inhalation of stomach contents”), the film moves back in time to trace one writer’s agonized voyage into oblivion.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 7:30pm
USA/UK 1992. Director: Nick Broomfield

“Spalding Gray may be the ultimate WASP neurotic, analyzing his actions with an intensity that would be unpleasantly egomaniacal if it weren’t so self-deprecatingly funny. He questions everything and ends up more exhausted than satisfied” (Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press).

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 - 7:30pm **Filmmaker in Attendance**
USA 2004. Directors: Scott Milam, Todd Pottinger, Ken Harder.
Post-screening discussion with Todd Pottinger

Eccentric, larger than life, possibly autistic and a huge Johnny Mathis fan, Richard Peterson is a Seattle legend. Ten years in the making, Big City Dick is a captivating journey into the life of Peterson, and is the latest installment in the Frames of Mind summer series on outsider musicians.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 7:30pm **Vancouver Premiere**
USA 2005. Director: Josh Rubin.
Post-screening discussion with Luke Meat
Media Sponsor of Frames of Mind is CiTR 109.1FM

A journey through the thunderstorms of the mind of Larry “Wild Man” Fischer is the first installment in the Frames of Mind Summer Series examining the life and work of outsider musicians.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 7:30pm
Denmark 2004. Director: Susanne Bier
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Greg Passey

Sometimes keeping the peace can have catastrophic results. Winner of the Sundance Audience Award for World Cinema, Susanne Bier's Brothers tells the story of how a UN peacekeeper is captured and faced with a bleak choice that leaves him a broken man, and turns the dynamics of his family upside down.

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May 4-7, 2006
From grizzly bears to psychiatric care, the Third Annual Frames of Mind Mental Health Film Festival focuses on a wide variety of issues relating to mental health and illness. Presented in partnership with the UBC Department of Psychiatry, the festival continues to grow in popularity and scope, and this year sees its largest ever presentation, with four days of screenings and workshops at Pacific Cinémathèque.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006- 7:30pm
USA 2005. Director: Jeff Feuerzeig.
Post-screening discussion between Dr. Harry Karlinsky
Co-sponsored by CiTR 101.9FM, Discorder, and Big Smash! Music film Festival

David Bowie, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Beck, Matt Goening, the late Kurt Cobain and an ever-growing cult audience are just some of the fans of Daniel Johnton. An exemplar of brilliance and madness going hand in hand, Johnston is an indie-rock cult figure and cartoonist who has had a life marked by wild fluctuations, numerous downward spirals, and periodic respites from his severe mental illness (he's been diagnosed with manic depression).

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Wednesday, March 15 - 7:30pm
Canada 2005. Director: Pierre Tétrault.
Post-screening discussion with Pierre Tétrault
Co-sponsored by the the Canadian Mental Health Association, Vancouver/Burnaby Branch and The National Film Board of Canada.
The media sponsor of Frames of Mind is The Ubyssey.

The life of devoted father and celebrated poet Philip Tétrault has been one of love, art and madness. Also known as "Harry Two Hats", Tétrault has schizophrenia, and has endured long spells living on the streets of Montreal, as well as time locked up in jails and psychiatric wards. But he has also developed deep family bonds and friendships that have helped him come through periods of incredible darkness, and have inspired his extraordinary poetry.

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Wednesday, February 15,2006 - 7:30pm
Italy 2004. Director: Matteo Garrone.
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Laird Birmingham
Co-sponsored by the B.C. Provincial Eating Disorders Program

Love, domination, self-esteem and eating disorders are at the heart of First Love, a harrowing psychological drama based on a true story about a thoroughly dysfunctional relationship.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 7:30pm
Canada 2005. Director: Allan King.
Post-screening discussion with director Allan King
Co-sponsored by the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia  and the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival

Recently selected as the only documentary in Canada's Top 10 films of 2005, Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company is Vancouver-born Allan King's latest "actuality drama". With his signature documentary style of no narration, no direction of action and no conventional interviews, Allan King turns his attention to the subject of how ageing affects the mind, as he follows the lives of eight elderly residents with varying cognitive skills over four months at the Jewish Home for the Aged at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto.

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