Art and Madness in the City of Geel - documentary film

Live screening at the Babylon Kino in Berlin, Friday 30th October, 2015 during the European Film Festival.
In its historic sites, the Middle Gate exhibition, Geel 2013, linked the expressive productions of two categories of people: Artists and Crazy Folk. More precisely, by attempting to benefit from Geel’s secular tradition of welcoming the mentally unwell, this international art event proposed a visual reflexion on the norms covering, and the discrepancies between, mental health and madness.
This development on the town of a fruitful link between art and psychiatry was driven by the efforts of Jan Hoet, organiser of the exhibition.
Aude Rain’s documentary pays tribute to the richness of his results.