A Page of Madness
Teinosuke Kinugasa / JP, 1926 / 60 min.
Distorting visual effects and disorienting camera movement: A Page of Madness is so avant-garde the film still feels modern today. The mental state of the patients and a cleaner in a psychiatric institution is portrayed in a nightmarish visual essay. With music by composer Daan Janssens.
Wracked with guilt about his role in his wife’s mental illness, a former sailor works as a cleaner in the institution where she is an inmate. There, he becomes more and more caught up in his own delusions. Kinugasa’s radical language of film was not appreciated by his contemporaries. It was only after the lost film was rediscovered in 1971, that its trailblazing nature was recognised. With English intertitles.
Details
Director
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Production year
1926
Country
JP
Original title
Kurutta ippeiji
Length
60 min.
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