MICHELLE WILLIAMS GAMAKER
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Works | Film & Documentary


A Long History of Madness 

2011 | HDV | 122mins | Colour
Co-directed with Mieke Bal
Several languages with English subtitles

A feature film based on the 1998 book Mère Folle by French psychoanalyst Françoise Davoine, which stages a confrontation between the analyst and her patients, told as a conflict between the contemporary world and medieval fools. 

In so doing, the work offers a positive representation of mad (psychotic) people and how both “mad” and “sane” people learn from one another. Utilising an integration of fiction, documentary and theory, A Long History of Madness is a unique and enthralling journey into the minds of the mad and those designated to cure them. Read more at Cinema Suitcase or visit the film’s official website. 

In 2011 we launched the version for the general public. This film is called in French Une longue histoire de folie, in Spanish Una larga historia de locura, in Dutch Moeder Zotheid, in Finnish Hullu Aiti, and in Russian the title is Dolgaia istoria bezumia. 
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  • Works
    • DISTANT RELATIVE (2018)
    • The Eternal Return (2019)
    • THE FRUIT IS THERE TO BE EATEN (2017)
    • HOUSE OF WOMEN (2017)
    • BROWN QUEERS (2017)
    • ELEPHANT BOY (2015) >
      • Elephant Boy’s Adventures in Reconstruction​
    • Collaboration >
      • Collaboration with Julia Kouneski
      • Collaborations with Mieke Bal
  • INDEX
    • Archive
    • Films in development >
      • THE BANG STRAWS
      • VIOLET CULBO
      • THE IMPERIAL
    • Man In Parts
    • WOCI Reading Group
  • Bio/Contact