*** This film launch has been cancelled ***
Please check back in due course as the film may be launched virtually.
Date: Thursday 19th March 2020
Time: 6-7.30pm
Room: HG19, Hatchcroft Building
Dr Erminia Colucci (Middlesex University)
Thousands of people worldwide live in isolation, chained, or
inside “animal cages”, naked, undernourished and often living in dirty
conditions because of mental health problems. This has been identified as one
of the most flagrant continuing abuses of the human rights of people with
mental illness, particularly in low- resource settings where mental health
services are extremely scarce and inadequate. “Breaking the chains: Anto’s story”
is a testimony-style participatory short-documentary (30 min) that depicts the
subjective lived experience of Anto, an Indonesian young man who was restrained
but was then released and reintegrated in the community as a self- taught
artist and English student. This film follows Anto’s journey for 6 years based
on his drawings, paintings and narrative, and was co-directed and co-edited
with Anto himself.
Dr Colucci who was the researcher, director, editor and film-maker
on this project, will launch this film together with her ESRC GCRF collaborator
and Indonesia lead Dr Diana Setiyawati followed by a Q&A. For more info https://movie-ment.org/breakingthechains/.
First come, first served! Arrive in good time.
