Up The River with Acid (2024)
Medical Anthropology Film and Discussion Group
Tuesday 5 November 2024 16:00 to 17:30Location: |
Kawasaki Room, Green Templeton College |
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The GTC Medical Anthropology Film & Discussion Group explores the extent to which film can complement, enrich and further the study of medical anthropology themes, topics and methods. After watching selected clips, we discuss a film’s content and approach, and interrogate its capacity to support the analysis of issues relating to illness, crisis, health and wellbeing. This term we focus on the theme of Dementia.
Up The River With Acid (2024) by Harald Hutter
Two days in the life of Horst, an elderly man whose life has been upended by dementia. The filmmaker’s father, Horst, has almost lost his senses of sight and hearing as a result of a decline that is also chipping away at his memory. Once a loquacious professor, he has withdrawn into the semi-seclusion of his diminished mind.
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Convener: lan.duo@anthro.ox.ac.uk
