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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 7:30 pm
USA, 2004. Director: Jessica Yu
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek
Co-sponsored by Gallery Gachet and the Art Studios and The Ubyssey
In 1973, at a Catholic poorhouse in Chicago, an 81-year-old retired and isolated janitor named Henry Darger quietly died. After Darger’s death, when his landlords went to clean out his one-room apartment, they found an astonishing and monumental artistic legacy. Piled all over the cramped apartment were hundreds of brilliant watercolours, featuring disturbing and mysteriously beautiful images of little girls in the throes of apocalyptic battles with evil forces.
Preceded by:
USA, 1996. Director: Jessica Yu
Jessica Yu won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for this honest and intimate portrait of an artist who lived for four decades paralyzed by polio and confined to an iron lung.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 7:30 pm
USA 1996. Director: Julian Schnabel
Cosponsored by Gallery Gachet and the Art Studios and The Ubyssey
In 1979, 18-year-old graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was sleeping in a cardboard box in a New York City park. Within three years, this Haitian-American child of middle-class parents was an ascendant star of the frenetic contemporary art scene ofManhattan in the 1980s. Marketed by his agent as “the true voice of the gutter”, Basquiat first gained attention as a graffiti artist whose neatly printed legends, signed SAMO, were found all over the city.
Wednesday, October 21, 2005 - 7:30 pm
Great Britain/France/Japan 1998. Director: John Maybury
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek
Cosponsored by Gallery Gachet and the Art Studios and The Ubyssey
“One of the nastiest and most truthful portraits of the artist-as-monster ever filmed” (Stephen Holden, New York Times), Love Is the Devil offers a riveting and disquieting depiction of a riveting and disquieting painter. Recognized during his lifetime as “England’s greatest living painter,” Francis Bacon (played here in a fearless, astonishing performance by Derek Jacobi) created violent and disturbing paintings portraying the human body in all its ugliness and anguish — his works a constant probing of the horrors of existence.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 7:30 pm
France/United Kingdom/Netherlands 1990. Director: Robert Altman
Post-screening discussion with: Ramon Kubicek
Cosponsored by Gallery Gachet and the Art Studios
An unflinching and powerful portrait of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, acknowledged today as
one of the world’s greatest artists, but in his lifetime completely unrecognized.
Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 7:30 pm
United Kingdom / Canada 2002. Director: David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg’s magnificent, bleak Spider stars Ralph Fiennes in a tour-de-force performance as Dennis Clegg, nicknamed “Spider” by his mother during his childhood because of his fascination with arachnids and their webs. Spider has spent the last thirty years in a facility for the mentally ill.
Preceded by
Canada, 2004. Director: Anne Koizumi
A dark animated short about the haunted world of a woman, Patricia Grey, whose daughter has been strangled with her skipping rope. The viewer sees Patricia as she is led through her excruciating and painful interrogation about her daughter’s death.
Thursday July 21, 2005 - 7:30 pm
Canada 1979. Director: David Cronenberg
Post-screening discussion with David Spaner
Struggling with a crumbling marriage, Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar) undergoes an experimental psychiatric therapy that encourages her to purge her emotional turmoil by embracing and fully experiencing her rage. Practiced by the charismatic Dr Raglan (Oliver Reed) at the isolated Somafree Institute, this new treatment is not without its side effects.
Preceded by
Canada, 2004. Director: Erös
Martha prepares a birthday cake for her daughter Mira. When a young man arrives with his best wishes, Martha dismisses him. Meanwhile, cocooned in a dark cavity of the basement, Mira’s restless sleep ends abruptly, as she awakes covered in blood.
Frames of Mind is a monthly film event utilizing film and
video to promote professional and community education on issues pertaining
to mental health and illness.
Director: Dr. Harry Karlinsky
Programmer: Caroline Coutts
All screenings are at Pacific Cinematheque Theatre 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC and are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.
$10.50 Adult
$9.00 Student/Senior
24hr Film Infoline: 604 688 FILM
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