FILM "WHAT REMAINS OF MADNESS"

WHAT REMAINS OF MADNESS
Joris Lachaise | France, 2015, 1h41 | DCP
Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pietro Germi, Emma Baron…

In the confinement of asylums, time seems to stand still. White walls, closed doors, and dark gazes compose the setting of the psychiatric hospital in Thiaroye, Senegal, where documentarian Joris Lachaise sets his camera. Far from the political denunciations of Wiseman's Titicut Follies (1967) or the incessantly shaky camera of Wang Bing (To Madness, 2004), Lachaise invites us to try to understand, through a double otherness, physical and geographical, what unfolds in these institutions whose function is, as philosopher Michel Foucault aptly identified, the regulation of political power imposed on the overflow of the psyche.

Meeting with Joris Lachaise
Born in 1980, Joris Lachaise lives between Marseille and Paris. After earning a master's degree in philosophy, he turned to documentary investigation and cinema, notably as a cameraman and editor. He collaborates with Jean-Pierre Krief and Arte before making his own films, at the intersection of anthropology, politics, and sound creation. In 2016, he founded the production company Mujô in Marseille. His films, including Convention: Black Wall / White Holes (2011) and What Remains of Madness (2014), shot in West Africa, question forms of mental and colonial alienation. In 2023, he directed Transfariana, which premiered at the Berlinale in the Panorama section.

Screening in partnership with the Cinémathèque du Doc as part of the Mois du Doc.
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