All Divided Selves by Luke Fowler
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About This Screening
All Divided Selves is a sensorially rich and intellectually engaging visual biography of the charismatic and controversial Scottish psychiatrist, R.D. Laing, and his contemporaries. Luke Fowler's feature-length experimental documentary is constructed from countless hours of historical film and video recordings of interviews, television appearances, and instructional documentation. The video loosely follows a historical arc that details Laing’s media-captured transition from popular professional practitioner into something like a cult hero. Scene after scene features Laing explaining the experiential dimension of psychosis in language that is mesmerizing and lucid. The low fidelity archival film footage also provides a gritty, dusty, and anarchic rendering of Laing’s post-war Glasgow punctuated by Fowler’s original and highly personal visual refrains depicting colorful, textured abstract landscapes and poetic, subtle imagery. Fowler further galvanizes the visual dimensions of his high-definition video work with a surround-sound score that features original field recordings and music by Éric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Alasdair Roberts. The result is a psycho-phenomenological viewing and listening experience that will emotionally envelop, transport and haunt viewers.
Program Details
November 27
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All Divided Selves
2011, HD Video, color/b&w, 5.1 Surround sound, 90 min.
by Luke Fowler
November 28
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All Divided Selves
2011, HD video, color/b&w, 5.1 surround sound, 90 min.
by Luke Fowler
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Monument to Another Man's Fatherland Sep. 29 + 30
Torse by Charles Atlas Oct. 8 + 9
Petits Poèmes Fleuris: Films of Rose Lowder Oct. 23 + 24
Two Works by Chris Marker Nov. 12 + 13
The Super-8 Dreams of Saul Levine Nov. 27 + 28
All Divided Selves by Luke Fowler Dec. 11 + 12
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