Screening
All Divided Selves, Luke Fowler
22 Mar 2016
Event times
8pm
Cost of entry
Tickets: £4 advance and £5 on the door
Address
- 4 John Street
- Gloucestershire
- Stroud
- GL5 2HA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Stroud
Films Screening as part of Site Festival 2016
About
The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by the charismatic, guru-like figure of Glasgow born psychiatrist R.D. Laing. In his now classic text “The Politics of Experience” (1967) Laing argued that normality entailed adjusting ourselves to the mystification of an alienating and depersonalizing world. Thus, those society labels as ‘mentally ill’ are in fact ‘hyper-sane’ travelers, conducting an inner voyage through aeonic time. The film concentrates on archival representations of Laing and his colleagues as they struggled to acknowledge the importance of considering social environment and disturbed interaction in institutions as significant factors in the aetiology of human distress and suffering. All Divided Selves reprises the vacillating responses to these radical views and the less forgiving responses to Laing’s latter career shift; from eminent psychiatrist to enterprising celebrity. In a dense, engaging and lyrical collage Fowler weaves archival material with his own filmic observations—marrying a dynamic soundtrack of field recordings with recorded music by Éric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Alasdair Roberts.
Run time 93 mins. Colour and B&W, Surround Sound, HD Video, 93mins Commissioned by CCS Bard Galleries, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Luke Fowler a filmmaker and musician was a 2012 Turner Prize nominee and won the Jarman Award in 2008.