Tuesday 10 March 2020

CANCELLED FILM LAUNCH - Thursday 19th March 2020, 6-7.30pm. Dr Erminia Colucci - ‘Breaking the Chains: Anto’s story’. A participatory video on mental illness and human rights in Indonesia. Film Screening in HG19


*** 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/.

Dr Setiyawati will also be giving a seminar on Islamic Psychology and depression at 15.30pm on the same day (https://www.mdx.ac.uk/events/2020/03/depression-islam-concept-prevention-treatments).

 First come, first served!  Arrive in good time.

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