First screened in the critics’ week at Cannes Film Festival in 1971, this one-of-its kind docu-drama arises from the work of anti-psychiatry guerrilla Fernand Deligny.
Deligny rejected the oppression of psychiatric institutions and lived with autistic children in experiments, or ‘tentatives’. Shot over two years, Le Moindre geste presents Yves, a young autistic man escaped from a psychiatric institution, and a teen from the local village, as they explore the Cevennes hills. When a situation becomes a crisis, Yves responds with anachronistic offerings that have their own logic.
It screens with Scrapbook, which overlays footage from 1967 in an Ohio residential centre for neurodiverse children with commentary recorded in 2012, and Lightsteps, a short by Project Art Works founder Kate Adams, which helps connects people with complex needs into the heart of cultural life and visual art activity.
Introduced by Queen Mary academic Janet Harbord and followed by a ScreenTalk with Deligny expert Dr Damian Milton.
Lightsteps
UK 2020 Dir Kate Adams 3 min
Scrapbook
Canada 2015 Dir Mike Hoolboom 18 min digital presentation
Le Moindre geste (The Slightest Gesture)
France 1971 Dirs Jean-Pierre Daniel, Fernand Deligny, Josée Manenti 96 min digital presentation
Total event running time approximately 144 min
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How is this screening Relaxed?
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