Asylum [1972], directed by Peter Robinson.A few side notes about this film. Asylum is a fascinating documentary centering around an experimental treatment facility set up by the noted psychiatrist and author R. D. Laing. The basic idea was to give a handful of individuals suffering from various personality disorders and/or mental illnesses the chance to self-govern themselves in a London flat, allowing them to come and go as they please. Doctors are on-hand for therapy but the patients are more or less given free reign; the documentary aims to be as invisible as possible, while peering into their terminally fractured existences.
Tom Sutpen of the wonderful blog If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats ran a version of the above capture a while back; I've reproduced it here in a slightly larger version.
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