Franco Basaglia ha 100 anni -Il cinema fatto dai “matti”
10 April, 17:45Andrea Piccardo
PROGRAM #1 – Films made by the patients of the Psychiatric Hospital of Trieste
«In 1973 we took pen and paper, and as a “Laboratory of audiovisual realizations and research” […] we threw the hook to Franco Basaglia. […] It was enough for us to confront ourselves with that reality in the making, a madhouse at the beginning, and understand how to insert our proposal, then developed in three months of work using the “videotape”. […] We connected the camera directly to the TV and filmed people and our random “performances” in an attempt to produce a potential visual short circuit: seeing each other live on television always provokes in everyone, even in seasoned patients, a reaction of joyful disbelief that can gradually turn into the perception of a possible participation in something new. And to those who reacted positively, manifesting in their possible language a minimum of participation, we proposed that we all meet at laboratory P where anyone could make a film. […] Nine patients each made their own film.”
Andrea Piccardo
My city, by Marcello, Italy. 1973. 6′
Memories of places and experiences of the author’s childhood and adolescence.
Memories of one of the oldest areas of Trieste, by Fulvio Castioni, Italy. 1973. 28′
Documentary about the neighborhood where the author lives.
A day in the mountains, by Olindo Guina. Italy, 1973. 9′
On the author’s passion for the mountains.
Let’s preserve green for our children, by Annamaria Casali, Italy, 1973, 29′
From the greenery of the Psychiatric Hospital to the non-existent one in the city: real estate speculation, problems of women and mothers…
The Mentally Ill and Society, by Egidio. Italy, 1973. 10′
Made with drawings by the author, it presents an analysis of the situation of the patient and a request for change.
A Young Man Considered Unjustly Insane, by Fulvio Castioni. Italy, 1973. 20′
The reconstruction of his hospitalization, his relationship with his family and with the Psychiatric Hospital.
The Italian Shooter, by Ennio Fragiacomo. 1973. 8′
A western version of a story about individuals on the margins.
With Andrea Picardo