A dancer enters the asylum and the inmates become the critics.
Japanese butô dancer Min Tanaka performs at La Borde hospital for its residents. The residents reflect on the performance and the collective unconscious on camera. Among the residents speaking, one can spot actor Pierre Clémenti.
Direction
Guattari's psychiatric institution becomes performance space.
Acting
Pierre Clémenti's raw resident commentary steals scenes.
Director
François Pain
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
La Borde was the legendary 'clinic of the fourth floor' where Félix Guattari developed schizoanalysis; his daughter Joséphine co-directed this.
Tanaka's butô technique—slow, grotesque, controlled collapse—was literally developed to embody trauma and marginalization.
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