Averroès et Rosa Parks
Nicolas Philibert
© Les Films du Losange
Averroès and Rosa Parks: two wards at the Esquirol Hospital, which – like the Adamant – are part of the Central Paris Psychiatric Unit. From individual interviews to "carer-patient" meetings, Philibert sets out to show a certain kind of psychiatry that still strives to welcome and rehabilitate patients’ voices. Little by little, each of them opens the door to their world. In an increasingly impoverished healthcare system, how can isolated people be reintegrated into a shared world?
Cinematography : Nicolas Philibert
Sound : Érik Ménard
Editing : Nicolas Philibert
Music : Magic Malik, Sarah Murcia
Sound : Érik Ménard
Editing : Nicolas Philibert
Music : Magic Malik, Sarah Murcia
Production : TS Productions
Distribution : Les Films du Losange
Distribution : Les Films du Losange
Averroès & Rosa Parks is an extension of Sur l'Adamant (On the Adamant). It is a like having filmed what is on the front of the stage, I am now showing what is behind the scenes, the work in the wings. If mental illness is a pathology of relationships, filming interviews seemed to me to be a good way of showing how carers try to support those suffering from it and work with them to forge together the support they need to help them to get back on their feet, to get going again, to re-establish a link with the world, if not with themselves, and to reintegrate themselves into the social fabric. It shows the extent to which actually listening to each person’s unique voice is like working with lace, always on the edge, always needing to be fine-tuned. (Nicolas Philibert)