Enter the imaginative world of acclaimed sculptor Rolanda Polonsky, who had been a resident of Netherne Psychiatric Hospital in Coulsdon, Surrey for 26 years when this film was made. One of the positive aspects of her illness, described in the film as a schizophrenia, is that it "tapped a deep source of mystical vision and human feeling" which finds expression in her work.
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture o...
Memories have the power to haunt us forever, whether or not they actually happened. For Margot, the ...
With unique and exclusive testimonies from doctors, nurses, loved ones, and patients we go behind cl...
‘Dead Harbor’ deals with the people who were living in worst asylums at that time – institutions in ...
Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, an...
A documentary about the statue Winged Victory of Samothrace, unquestionably one of the most complet...
The odyssey of the Mayice designers, who had to face to bring an impossible-to-manufacture piece to ...
The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. ...
Why do we see so many severely mentally ill people on the street off treatment? Delaney has seen her...
Two bodies and one mind, this is the extraordinary story of one pair of conjoined twins in today's w...
A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find the...
During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman ...
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
Guido Magnone designs cardboard boxes by hand for his parents' small business. A painter friend love...
Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three fa...