Event overview
Dead When I Got Here, about a mental asylum run by its inmates, is continuing its global screening tour after winning the jury award at the Scottish Mental Health Film and Arts Festival and receiving a Special Mention at Docs DF in Mexico.
Associate Lecturer Mark Aitken (Department of Media and Communications) produced and filmed Dead When I Got Here over four years and edited it in his office on our New Cross campus.
Based in Mexico, the film follows Josué who, six years ago, was infested with gangrene and unable to walk. Deranged and malnourished, his body and mind had been broken by decades of drug abuse. Police cast him out of the deadly streets of Juárez into the desert and dumped him in an asylum run by its own patients.
When Mark meets him, he’s managing the facility, having discovered compassion in his darkest hours and formed a new family among the asylum’s 120 residents. Josué’s daughter in Los Angeles, who thought her father dead, is reconnected with him during the making of the film.
Most recently screened at the Cork Film Festival, Dead When I Got Here has also been shown at DOK Leipzig in Germany, The APHA Global Public Health Film Festival in the US, San Francisco’s DocFest, Medfest 2015 in London and many more film and documentary showcases along with national broadcasts in The Netherlands and Finland to date. The Observer described it as “a masterpiece, epic and intimate”.
Dates & times
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30 Nov 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:30pm |
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