A Monthly Mental Health Film Series
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.