REJECTED (THE)


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  • Kitas pavadinimas (ai): REJECTED (THE)
  • Žanras: documentary / ΛΕΡΟΣ ΤΡΟΦΙΜΟΙ ΨΥΧΙΑΤΡΕΙΟ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΟ ΕΠΙΤΑΦΙΟΣ / INMATES MENTAL HOSPITAL CEMETERY GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION LEROS / Feature film / Documentary / Feature film / Documentary
  • Aprašymas: A documentary, divided into chapters, about the life of the inmates of the asylum on Leros. The documentary aligns with the point of view of anti-psychiatry that considers the mentally ill as victims of social oppression. The film dissects the psychiatric system and offers pointed criticism of the policies that produce such inhuman conditions
    1. PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN Voice over passages from The Revelation of St. John. In parallel we see details from Hieronymus Bosch's paintings. Anthropo-zoomorphism: grotesque art.)
    10. "STRANGLED POETS" An inmate plays the harmonica. Portraits of inmates and scenes. Narration over: "The poet is an inspired lunatic … Could it be that what we call madness is a heart-breaking attempt at autonomy?" Male inmates in the forecourt of the mental hospital. (LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL - FORECOURT)
    11. "THE END OF THE MAZE" A passage in the mental hospital (traveling with a wide-angle lens). Shut doors and bars. Human cries of pain. Narration over: "Stratos, aged 34 today, spent about 20 year tied to…." Stratos chained to a tree. (LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL – PASSAGE - FORECOURT)
    12. "EPITAPHIC NIGHTS" Narration over: "We sleep quietly in the towns. The unwanted are far away … An unasked for will call upon God". Human cries. The "rejected" in their beds. Tied, behind bars. The moon. Long shot of the Procession of the Vulnerable Wood of the Cross at the mental hospital. Narration over: "The moon shining above St. Marina … Waiting for Our Lord's Rising from the Dead". Good Friday's Procession: priests, the mental hospital staff and some inmates walking together among the trees. A chanting is heard: "Oh, my precious!" (LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL – THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING – DORMITORY - FORECOURT)
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    3. "CRIES OUT OF TOWN" We see a human pendulum. A mental hospital inmate sways incessantly back and forth. Experts say that this movement is a telltale sign of the feeling of orphanhood. Leros' mental hospital (long shots).Narration over: "An entrenched, inert world. It is inhabited by uniform, obedient human figures. It is marked out by tall surrounding walls, wire fences, seas and mountains. Never before had the cameras been there. Colonies, asylums, hospitals treating poor, mentally disturbed people. Here they are out of reach of family conflicts, children's laughter, and the humiliations at the village square. He is protected. He is granted asylum which is extended, as it were, to encompass those on the outside. We feel protected, too. Our civilization that regards man-eating as downright barbaric has come up with an alternative to do away with unwanted individuals".We see inmates going into the building through the forecourt. (LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL - FORECOURT)
    4. THE INMATES GO TO BED Ward A (interior). The inmates go to bed. Narration over about the bureaucratic-social procedure of committing a person to a mental hospital. The rejected. The inmates gather at the entrance and the stairways in the building as if they were posing for a commemorative photo. ( LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL – DORMITORY– INSIDE STAIRWAY)
    5. «THE GRAND VOYAGE» OF THE MADMENS' SHIP Outdoor shots of the mental hospital. Medication, pills, electroshock and injections: the paraphernalia of suppression. The inmates lie on the grass. They have a haircut. They walk around the forecourt. Narration over: "Human personality without a name. Who can read a cry?". Scenes from the forecourt of the mental hospital. Snapshots of the inmates in the forecourt. Some are smoking. Traveling to the barbed wire. Inmates' portraits. Narration over: "The rejected: That's the form of address for someone who has not had a visitor for one or two years. For thousand inmates from other mental hospitals have traveled to Leros. Half went with a person waiting for them!". Scenes with inmates of the mental hospital. Narration over: "On Leros to keep track of time and measure space with their own bodies". (EXTERIORS OF LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL – LEROS – FORECOURT – INTERIORS)
    6. "FOOD. A THREAT" The inmates at the mental hospital waiting to be served their meal(traveling-shot along the dining table). The serving of food. No cutlery is provided. The taking of medicine after the meal. They all take their pills down with water out of the same tin cup. (LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL – THE DINING ROOM)
    7. "THE DOOMED" Scenes from kiosk 9 on Leros for the treatment of the most severe cases. Narration over: «The depot of wretchedness. Come sun or rain, they go naked about the slops". At the forecourt of kiosk 9. Bare, miserable souls. A cemetery on Leros. The isolated cemetery for the mentally disturbed. Inmates are buried separately with makeshift wooden crosses. (LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL – KIOSK 9 – KIOSK 9 FORECOURT – THE CEMETERY)
    8. "CHILDREN OUT OF NOWHERE" Scenes of young children, mental hospital inmates wearing aprons, crammed in a room. (LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL - ROOM)
    9. "YARDS WITHOUT NEIGHBOURS" In the narration over we hear of the buildings the Italians left behind on Leros and the role of Queen Frederika and the Junta. Images of the mentally unbalanced. Also: "They let them out in the yards after breakfast". An inmate sings in front of the camera: "How can I live without love? … Hurrah!". The women's ward: At the veranda-passage behind the bars. Scattered across the forecourt, solitary figures are lying on their back, as if straining to feel the sun's beneficial effect in their body. Men in the forecourt, each one on his own. Women sitting on benches with their lips sealed. Female inmates sunbathing. (LEROS MENTAL HOSPITAL - FORECOURT)
  • Raktažodžiai: ΛΕΡΟΣ ΤΡΟΦΙΜΟΙ ΨΥΧΙΑΤΡΕΙΟ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΟ ΕΠΙΤΑΦΙΟΣ / INMATES MENTAL HOSPITAL CEMETERY GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION LEROS / ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΗΚΟΥΣ / ΝΤΟΚΙΜΑΝΤΕΡ / FEATURE FILM / DOCUMENTARY / ΛΕΡΟΣ ΤΡΟΦΙΜΟΙ ΨΥΧΙΑΤΡΕΙΟ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΟ ΕΠΙΤΑΦΙΟΣ / INMATES MENTAL HOSPITAL CEMETERY GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION LEROS / ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΗΚΟΥΣ / ΝΤΟΚΙΜΑΝΤΕΡ / FEATURE FILM / DOCUMENTARY / ΛΕΡΟΣ ΤΡΟΦΙΜΟΙ ΨΥΧΙΑΤΡΕΙΟ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΟ ΕΠΙΤΑΦΙΟΣ / INMATES MENTAL HOSPITAL CEMETERY GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION LEROS / ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΗΚΟΥΣ / ΝΤΟΚΙΜΑΝΤΕΡ / FEATURE FILM / DOCUMENTARY
  • Tiekėjas: Tainiothiki tis Ellados
  • Gamybos kompanija: GREEK FILM CENTER (GFC)
  • Spalva: Colour
  • Director: ZOIS KOSTAS
  • Sound: With sound
  • Kolekcija: Ψηφιοποιημένα ελληνικά ντοκιμαντέρ