October 18th
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.
September 20, 2006
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).
August 16, 2006 **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.
July **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.
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.
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).
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.
