Inner World: Exploring Mental Health and Neurodivergence

I'm crying all the time and I don't know why

We ask ourselves why we are crying and try to answer without shame or fear. An animation by Jamie Machul.

Pharma Infinity

In this video artwork, Chanika Svetvilas uses prescription bottles and wire to create an infinity loop sculpture, dancing through a CVS pharmacy to reflect on side effects, treatment, and stigma. Her work explores medical conditions, BigPharma, and care, drawing from her experiences with bipolar disorder and disability justice.

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Chanika Svetvila will be attending the film screening and thanks the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, C.V. Starr Fund for A/P/A Research” for its support."

It'll Be Fine, Probably

An abstract short film about mental health diagnosis. A movie by Matt Warlow

Lang lebe der Fischfriedhof (How to Bury a Fish)

Mia, Jan and T* want to build a pond in the garden of their psychiatric day clinic as part of a project. But Luzie, who is prone to violence, threatens to break up the group. A movie by Elsa van Damke

Slope

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around. A movie by María Monreal Otano.

AND(H)ERS

When we think of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder we often think of that one particularly loud classmate, the so-called the so called fidget spinner. For a long time, the image in the media was childlike, but what does the life of adults affected affected and why is the disorder so male-dominated? How are women and men affected differently and what do the everyday conflicts look like? A documentary film by Lennart Kistner-Bahr and Florian Lupberger.