An Insight into Madness, The Prisoner Party

synopsis

The film is made up of the eponymous medium-length film and the short film The Prisoner Party. The director’s goal was for the viewers to better comprehend the everyday life of patients and doctors at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Alban, where the first experiments with psychotherapy took place. The commentary uses Artaud’s texts on madness.

biography

In the 1960s, French native Mario Ruspoli (1925-1986) contributed to the transition from the term cinéma vérité to the more accurate, technology-reflecting cinéma direct; in his time, he was one of the most active filmmakers of this movement.

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