Τhe Man Who Disturbed The Universe_ Mental Institution In Crete | Documentary Psillakis (Eng Subs)

The Chania Mental Institution [Crete]. A group of mental patients is our host at the «Citizen’s Assembly», the place they meet and deal daily - where some ask for money and others ask for speech. The place where they handle their beauty and their relationship very well indeed.
Another group of former chronic patients, now out of the Mental Institution, goes through the painful process of social rehabilitation and dares to embark upon a one-week trip to Denmark, within the framework of international exchange programmes.
Through the parallel parlance of the two groups the film attempts to listen to the utterance of madness, in its chaotic delirium, the crust of a deep sea. It tries to observe man’s dramatic clash with madness, in the deepest despair and total uncertainty regarding every aspect of the being it encompasses.
«If death encircles our life, insanity lingers around our mental health». In madness, man feels that he has nowhere to return to. He no longer is. He was.
Director: Stavros Psillakis (2000)