HEALING ART Total of 13 films Drama, music, dance and visual arts - powerful tools for expressing and healing mental illnesses, physical disabilities, social displacement and personality disorders, challenges that affect many artists.
CATALOGUE HEALING ARTS THEATRE / DANCE DOCUMENTARY / EDUCATION / FILM & MEDIA
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HEALING ART Theatre | Dance Soul Dance + Documentary
90 mins | KF-Soul | A$290 / 1 yr The performance is the outcome of joint work by blind, partially sighted, physically handicapped and unhindered dancers. It is an artistic inquiry and research in disability and art without being emotionally caught in pity or sympathy. It is a powerful performance which shows the infinite possibilities that arise from the limitations and freedom of the human body and spirit.Soul Dance, the Documentary: Director, Yvette Bozsik, dancers of her company, Ildikó Bóta, art and movement therapist, dancers of her company, and other Hungarian artists talk about their abilities and disabilities
Somebody’s Daughter Theatre
On the Edge: Madeleine
Kitten
Abnormally Funny People
51 mins | SD-Som | A$180 / 1 yr
77 mins | JK-Madel | A$180 / 1 yr
80 mins | JK-Kitten | A$180 / 1 yr
45 mins | ABF-Funny | A$180 / 1 yr
It provides an insight both in their work inside women’s prisons and with particularly marginalised teenagers on the outside. Take the journey from workshops to performance, and see why their work is so inspirational and transformational.
Madeleine is an exploration of schizophrenia and it’s effect on a young woman and her family. It is the second in a cycle of new works, by Black Sequin Productions, exploring mental illness.
“A bi-polar soap trip – opera. A drama in three acts: from tragic, to manic, to sonic “ The play attempts to capture the Bi-Polar experience in it’s form as well as content. This is achieved by the externalising of the internal experience of Kitten.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of a group of disabled standup comedians rehearsing, producing and performing a groundbreaking comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the summer of 2005.
Dance to Live
Healing Steps - Healing powers of music and dance
Dances of Ecstasy
The Music in Me
57 mins | CG-Dance | A$240 / 1 yr
41 mins | CG-Heal | A$240 / 1 yr
58 mins | LP-Dances | A$250 / 1 yr
47 mins | AB-Music | A$167 / 1 yr
The documentary tells the personal stories of the dancers at Philadanco. Dance to Live brings viewers into the world of dance that is normally hidden behind curtains, costumes, posters and the glamour of the stage.
Profiling four artists who have had to cope with adversity, while persevering in their respective performing arts careers, this documentary celebrates the healing and restorative powers of music, dance and friendship.
Throughout history states of ecstasy were a way of conneting with a divine power. The film explores the many levels of trance and discovers what links them together is the human need to connect with a spiritual dimension - a living part of many traditional cultures.
This the story of the Merry Makers who refuse to be defeated by the enormous challenges life has dealt them. Their dance and performances inspire even the most cynical. Australia only.
HEALING ART
Documentary | Education | Film and Media
Alone in a Crowded Room
The Dinner Party
56 mins | AB-Alone | A$176 / 1 yr
55 mins | PCO-Dinner | A$220 / 1 yr
What if you were highly intelligent, but remained trapped within a disorder that made others see you as inarticulate, odd or disabled? This program explores the line between ability and disability by following four Australian adults who are autistic. Australia only.
A powerful documentary by Paul Cox, this film provides a unique insight into the lives of organ recipients, their time spent on waiting lists, their operations and the everyday realities of living with an organ from a deceased person.
CPR: A Life Saving Skill
Ken Paul Rosenthal’s “Crooked Beauty”
9 mins | IV-CPR | A$100 / 1 yr
34 mins | RV-Paul | A$240 / 1 yr
This video production is both a realistic and visually stimulating learning aid for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
A poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara’s transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy.
Beneath the Hood
What is it like to be 15 years old, living in Hackney, east London and excluded from mainstream school? Beneath The Hood is a challenging documentary telling the stories of students at Daniel House Pupil Referral Unit in Hackney. Through rap, MC-ing, poetry and music, we are given a unique insight into their lives following exclusion.
Commissioned by Creative Partnerships London East, this film is the culmination of a year-long project involving Eelyn Lee Productions, headteacher Annie Cornbleet and the students and staff at Daniel House. Referencing music videos, graffiti, martial arts and cooking programmes as well as observational filming and interviews, Beneath the Hood experiments with the form of documentary whilst providing triggers for discussion around exclusion. The film gets to the heart of this topical issue, raising questions 82 mins | EE-Ben | A$180 / 1 yr on In the spirit of Hip Hop, Beneath the Hood puts different styles and genres ‘in the mix’ to create an ambitious portrait of life at Daniel House and what it is like to re-integrate into mainstream school. Following in the footsteps of Feltham Sings, Beneath the Hood sought to further develop the musical documentary style. Professionals from the music and performance industries, such as performance poets Jonzi D and Adisa, graffiti artists Dane and Tizer, composer and music producer Kew and Capoeira teacher Simon Atkinson were brought in to work closely with students, a process that has successfully inspired and validated creativity within the Pupil Referral Unit.