Insanity
Insanity is about how we treat people who are dealing with mental illness - it's insane. A personal and intimate story of the family's perspective, told by director Hill-Tout, whose brother had schizophrenia and disappeared 25 years ago.
Insanity is about how we treat people who are dealing with mental illness - it's insane. A personal and intimate story of the family's perspective, told by director Hill-Tout, whose brother had schizophrenia and disappeared 25 years ago.
Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts shows its denizens, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed, forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bullying by many of the hospital's staff.
