Begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil?
Louis van Gasteren / NL, 1969 / 65 min.
Poignant documentary about a former concentration camp prisoner treated by professor Jan Bastiaans using LSD. The therapy was controversial, and the film had a huge social impact. Screens on 4 May (Dutch Remembrance of the Dead day), as a counterpart to Somniloquies by artists Paravel & Castaing-Taylor.
Begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil? follows fifty-something Joop, who undergoes a controversial course of therapy using LSD. Van Gasteren filmed the man in his home and in the clinic during the first two LSD sessions.
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Director
Louis van Gasteren
Production year
1969
Country
NL
Original title
Begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil?
Length
65 min.
Language
Dutch
Subtitles
NONE
Format
35mm
Part of
Paravel & Castaing-Taylor
Eye Filmmuseum presents Cosmic Realism, the first retrospective featuring the works of Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Trained as anthropologists, they merge anthropology, documentaries, and visual arts in their craft. The exhibition takes the viewer past seven immersive installations in which the development of the makers can be followed.
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