Equipe Resources
Films:
SAN CLEMENTE
Dir. Raymond Depardon, 1980
In 1980, Raymond Depardon visited San Clemente, a psychiatric clinic situated on an island in the Venice lagoon, he had been to previously to shoot a series of photos. This time he brought his movie camera. Over ten days, he filmed daily life within the asylum shortly before it was closed down and created a unique piece of cinema, a reference point in the field of documentaries, which offers us an insight into a world that is normally closed to us. As a filmmaker, Depardon’s usual method of disappearing like a chameleon in the landscape doesn’t work here. He and his camera become an active part of the film as the inmates meet him with either aggression or indifference. Through long takes and without explanatory commentary, SAN CLEMENTE shows the preparations for life in freedom from the patients’ perspective.
LA SECONDA OMBRA (THE SECOND SHADOW)
Dir. Silvano Agosti, 2000
The new director of the mental hospital in Gorizia visits the wards disguised as a workman. After observing a series of disturbing events, he decides to take advantage of his position and change the way the hospital is organized. He abolishes containment therapy, straitjackets, electric shock treatment and ice-cold showers. Gradually, all doors open. So much so that, one summer's evening, the director invites all the patients into the hospital grounds and suggests they knock down the wall that separates the city from the mental hospital. Everything has to take place in one night to avoid bureaucratic obstacles and institutional reactions. In this particular and poetic way, five hundred patients work together to break down the wall that hides their condition from the world.
C'ERA UNA VOLTA LA CITTÀ DEI MATTI… (ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A CITY OF MADMEN)
Dir. Silvano Agosti, 2002
Two episode miniseries about the story of Franco Basaglia, the man who revolutionized Italian psychiatry and the situation of mental hospitals before Law 180/78.
50 ANNI DI CLU
Dir. Erika Rossi, 2024
The history of the Franco Basaglia United Workers Cooperative takes us once again to rediscover that wind of freedom that was breathed in Trieste in the 70s, which saw it as the protagonist, theater of the most important public reform implemented in our country. Fortunately, the people who made that change possible are still here and can tell us about it, and show us that changing the world is possible.
LA CITTA’ CHE CURA (THE CARING CITY)
Dir. Erika Rossi, 2019
Watch (Password: microarea)
TRIESTE RACCONTA BASAGLIA (TRIESTE ON BASAGLIA)
Dir. Erika Rossi, 2012
Watch (Password: trb)
IL VIAGGIO DI MARCO CAVALLO (MARCO CAVALLO'S TRIP)
Dir. Erika Rossi, 2015
Watch (Password: MarcoCavallo2022)
I GIARDINI DI ABELE (THE GARDENS OF ABEL)
Dir. by Sergio Zavoli, 1968
In May 1978, Law 180 came into force, which effectively abolished the mental asylum institution in Italy. The main protagonist of this law was the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, who in 1968, 10 years before the law, was interviewed by Sergio Zavoli on Tv7 in the report "I giardini di Abele". This precious filmed document from the Rai archive shows the interior of the mental asylum in Gorizia, collecting the testimony of Basaglia and his patients.
I GRANDI DELLA SCIENZA DEL NOVECENTO: FRANCO BASAGLIA (THE GREAT OF THE 20TH CENTURY SCIENCE: FRANCO BASAGLIA)
Dir. Enrico Agapito, 2002
A documentary retraces the life of the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia who made the final overcoming of the lunatic asylum in Trieste, the first anti-institutional experience in the care of "mentally ill people" who laid the foundations of the psychiatric reform of 1978.