{"id":963,"date":"2004-02-05T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=963"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:28:57","slug":"threads-of-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/02\/05\/threads-of-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads of Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, February 5, 2004, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Jennifer Montgomery in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Doctors and their schizophrenic patients live together at Layton House, the therapeutic community at the center of Jennifer Montgomery\u2019s startling study of suffering and idealism. Based on the anti-psychiatry movement and the writings of R.D. Laing, <em>Threads of Belonging <\/em>is shot in a documentary style but is nevertheless a work of fiction.\u00a0 Montgomery encouraged her actors to improvise as they reenacted actual case histories \u2013 indeed, for the filmmaker, \u201cthe way actors perform madness and the way real insanity can itself resemble a performance\u201dwas a primary strategy.\u00a0 As experimental therapies, power struggles, and the individual arcs of mental illness converge, we see a community struggling to understand itself and determine its destiny (Jim Trainor). 2003, Jennifer Montgomery, USA, 93 min, video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 5, 2004, 8pm Jennifer Montgomery in person! Doctors and their schizophrenic patients live together at Layton House, the therapeutic community at the center of Jennifer Montgomery\u2019s startling study of suffering and idealism. Based on the anti-psychiatry movement and the writings of R.D. Laing, Threads of Belonging is shot in a documentary style but [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/02\/05\/threads-of-belonging\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Threads of Belonging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[211,423,468,615],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","tag-experimental","tag-monographic-shows","tag-performance","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10128,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}