HEAD COLD

HEAD COLD

Country/ies
Germany
Production
Gamma Bak
Editor
Length
93
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2010
Eurodoc Participant
Eurodoc Producer
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Year participation
2005
Distribution

"What belongs and what doesn't? You can't just make a collection of material from your own life. That's not possible." This key sentence is from a staged video diary that Gamma Bak filmed in 1993 at her kitchen table, two years before she underwent her first psychotic episode. Five more episodes follow, as do many interviews – with friends, ex-partners, colleagues, relatives and even with herself – that have accrued during her adult life. They all revolve around the question of what is a psychosis. Does the diagnose stem from the inner or outer world? How is one distinguished from the other? How do drugs and stays in psychiatric wards alter the terms for defining the "I", such as sexuality, work and apartment? The fullness of the conversations and the exact selection of (auto)portraits show how identity evades the field of language and linear narrative. With Schnupfen im Kopf Gamma Bak succeeds in removing the intimacy of illness from the realm of taboo and bringing it back into society as a constituent component.

Festivals & Awards

Berlinale 2010 - Forum Section

Production & financial support