Jarman Award winner Luke Fowler comes to Star and Shadow with his latest film, All Divided Selves (reviewed on this blog here). The film continues Luke’s inimitable investigation into the oft-maligned psychiatrist R.D. Laing. Coupling archival footage with the artists’s own filmic observations, All Divided Selves also includes sonic contributions Read more…
Although we may prefer to think that asylum life is not part of living memory, spaces that once housed hundreds if not thousands of patients have been revisited in recent years by photographers, artists and filmmakers. Echo Of The Past: The Terrence Tower is a documentary whose main character is Read more…
Cheryl McGeachan writes: Inside The Glasgow Film Theatre on Thursday evening a diverse mix of individuals crowded together for the sold-out UK premier of Luke Fowler’s new film All Divided Selves. Fowler’s piece, once again, takes Scottish born psychiatrist Ronald David Laing as its centrepiece, and yet this is a Read more…
Structures of Depressive Experience in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and Melancholia Angela Woods Philosophy Department Seminar – Thursday 1 March Room 005, 48/49 Old Elvet, Durham. Refreshments will be served from 11am with the talk commencing at 11.30am. Lars von Trier is variously regarded as one of Europe’s most provocative and most brilliant Read more…
The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival is now one of the largest arts and health events in the world with tens of thousands of attenders expected at almost 300 events taking place between 1-24 October. This year the Festival is running have 10 provocative and entertaining learning events Read more…
The Drama of Medicine: All the Ward’s a Stage The Association for Medical Humanities 8th Annual Conference University of Leicester 11 – 13 July 2011 Paul Lazarus, President of the Association for Medical Humanities reflects on the Association for Medical Humanities conference: The party’s over- it doesn’t seem like three Read more…
Simone Flavelle visited the Centre for Medical Humanities in March as our first international visitor on an ‘artist intensive’. She discussed her Lost Generation Project with members of the Centre and also gave a number of public talks. What follows is an abridged transcript of one of her talks. Simone Read more…
The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies Edited by Henri Colt, Silvia Quadrelli and Friedman Lester New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. From the OUP web site: “Film and literature have long been mined for interesting examples and case studies in order to teach biomedical ethics to students. Read more…
Never Let Me Go is the new film by Mark Romanek based on Kazuo Ishiguo’s 2005 novel. It has been described as a mystery and a sci fi thriller. As someone who found the film only marginally mysterious and distinctly unthrilling, I have no qualms whatsoever about discussing openly what Read more…