Wednesday, March 21 – 7:30pm
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Vikram Dua
Co-sponsored by the Autism Society of British Columbia
A 2005 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Short, Autism is a World tells the story of Sue Rubin, a young woman with autism.
Autism Every Day offers an honest, unvarnished portrayal of the challenges faced by several families as they confront, with uncompromising hope and unconditional love, the difficulties of raising an autistic child.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 – 7:30pm
Spain/France/Italy 2004. Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Romayne Gallagher
Co-sponsored by the UBC Division of Palliative Care
Winner of the 2005 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Alejandro Amenábar’s The Sea Inside is based on the true story of Ramón Sampedro, a Spaniard who was paralyzed in a diving accident at the age of 25 and spent the next thirty years of his life fighting a legal campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 – 7:30pm
Canada 2006. Director: Bonnie Sherr Klein
Post-screening discussion with Bonnie Sherr Klein
Co-sponsored by National Film Board of Canada.
Art, activism, and disability are the starting points for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. Shameless marks Not a Love Story director Bonnie Sherr Klein’s return to a career interrupted by a catastrophic stroke in 1987. Always the activist, she now turns her lens on the world of disability culture and, ultimately, the transformative power of art.
December 20, 2006 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
November 15, 2006
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.
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.
