Zoom on the experiment it Borde, whose project, libertarian Utopia,
permanent revolution, laboratory of the artistic movements and policies
of the years 1960-1970, the social and therapeutic practices innovating
and critical of the very whole company, were to treat the madness
differently.
The private clinic of Borders founded by Jean Oury
and a group of young psychiatrists, influenced by the psychiatric
revolution of the Forties, then per May 68, sought “to make live the
patients all while curing them”. This movement, whose psychoanalyst
Felix Guattari was a vibrating figure, took into account the creative
and productive dimension of the madness, and redrew, while being torn
off with repressive dimensions of traditional psychiatry and
psychoanalytical conformism, of new relationship between looking after
and neat. Calling into question the hierarchies, the divisions of the
labour, it placed the institution like centers therapeutic device.
La Borde ou le droit à la folie
by Igor Barrère (1977, 60’)
Borders or the right to the madness is luminous strolls with
the private clinic Borders It, which leads us to the meeting of the
patients, Jean Oury or Guattari and a collective life inventing itself.
Meetings of word, around film being done, the time which runs, a
certain form of softness, the palpable Utopia order the setting in
scene of film.
Min Tanaka à la Borde
by Joséphine Guattari et François Pain (1986, 25’)
“
Together we incarnate only one body which does not belong to anybody, the body of the ground”
Min Tanaka. “Atmospheric Variation”, “unperceivable molecule”, from its
“laboratory of meteorology of the body”, the large Japanese dancer butô
Tanaka Min, at the same time human and animal, mineral and vegetable,
child and old man, insane and beggar, causes the emotion of the
residents of Borde, and offers, by its chaosmic dance, a single
experiment which touches with more close the unconscious collective and
the secret forces of the universe. François Pain is realizer and author
of many films related to the experiments of alternative psychiatry.
Large accomplice of Felix Guattari, it worked during seven years with
the private clinic of Borde. He takes part in the epopee of the free
radios (1977/1981), cofounder of the Federation of NonCommercial Free
Radios and Radio Tomato. Cofounder of “Unchained Channel” (1991) and of
“Chaosmédia”, (1994) associations of which the goal is to develop a
theoretical reflexion on the topic of the media, as well as an approach
different from the production and audio-visual diffusion.
Texts and programmation : Kantuta Quiros & Aliocha Imhoff
