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Big City Dick:Richard Peterson’s First Movie

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

Richard PetersonEccentric, 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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Derailroaded: Inside the Mind of Larry “Wild Man” Fischer

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

Larry FischerA 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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Brothers (Brødre)

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

BrothersSometimes 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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3rd Annual Frames of Mind Mental Health Film Festival

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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The Devil and Daniel Johnston

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

The Devil and Daniel JohnstonDavid 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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This Beggar’s Description

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.

This Beggar's Description

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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First Love (Primo Amore)

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

First loveLove, 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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Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

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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In the Realms of the Unreal / Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien

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:

BREATHING LESSONS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARK O’BRIEN

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.

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Basquiat

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.

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All screenings are at The Cinematheque 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC and are generally held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month

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