Film Categories: Mental Health

  • La Revue

    Art forms have been killing each other off for centuries. In an artistic autopsy, Aiken and Majzels examine the death of vaudeville. Through dance, performance and music, this film uses the trappings of vaudeville to tell the story of its demise. With a cabaret of sad double acts, aging burlesque dancers and tired magicians, the film takes a humorous and macabre look into the forgotten arts.

  • Fabric

    “Fabric” is an experimental narrative about a woman’s attempts to reconnect with her family. The film uses magical realism to visualize a physical process of grief, exploring both real and imagined spaces.

  • Fountain of Youth, The

    Old age is no barrier to wishful thinking; in fact it may be the time we can indulge in our most provocative fantasies. Madame Spinoza and Dr. Ramsbottom, denizens of an old age home and confined to their wheelchairs, are off on their wildest travels to seek the fountain of youth. Along the way they are assisted by memories of the past and resisted by the future of flaming youth. The vision ends with their nightly medication. Also available on the DVD compilation “James MacSwain Retrospective.”

  • 52

    “52” probes one man’s greatest nightmare: getting old. Written by and starring Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall).

  • 4 Pounds

    “4 Pounds” is the story of an actor who, over the course of four life-altering weeks, focuses his considerable will to the goal of losing some weight. Though the people in his life try to dissuade him from his ruinous path, he ignores them in his headlong rush towards self-destruction. Written by and starring Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall).

  • Flyers

    A street flyer leads to a surprising discovery.

  • James MacSwain Retrospective, A

    “Atlantic native James MacSwain has made more than 20 films over the last 30 years. His voice has become a pervasive and sophisticated contribution to the experimental film community in this country, often literally as his extensive use of voiceover – and his clever scripts – evince a considerable talent as a writer. MacSwain’s particular use of 16mm collage and animation appear deceptively simple, but his films have a lingering depth and poignancy that resists easy categorization.” – Images Festival, 2011 DVD Compilation Contains: 1. Little Known Curious Facts (1981, 4.20 min.) 2. Flower (1984, 8.20 min.) 3. Amherst (1984,…

  • Free Man

    When Michael’s partner of thirteen years, Charlie, dies unexpectedly, he is forced to work with his estranged mother-in-law, Celine, to plan his funeral. When they have a difference of opinion, Michael finds himself embroiled in a power struggle for the right to plan the memorial the way Charlie wanted. While Michael begins to dive deep into his psyche to keep the memory of Charlie alive, Celine turns to the legal system, stripping Michael of Charlie’s burial rights. Michael must use his music and the power of their union to confront his grief and mourn his dead lover.

  • Spiral Transition

    “Spiral Transition” is a candid, compelling and interwoven documentary that explores the filmmaker’s relationship with his mother and how it is changing and evolving as he transitions genders.

  • Interview, The

    Two women meet at a crossroads… Ross Lipman’s one fiction film to date comes from a genre even more rare in the US than experimental work-adult drama. Printed in muted tones that conjure silent film handpainting, and merging theater-based naturalism with an elliptical psychological encounter, “The Interview” at once utilizes and destroys mainstream narrative expectations.