Chaosophy - autonomous learning

I don't know. But there is obviously a whole new technology that is
being experimented with, and this at all levels of production. Members
of the Bellochio team explained, for example, that each
sequence, each shot, was collectively discussed during the editing.
It's up to the film people to answer your question. But it seems to
me that what was achieved in this film goes far beyond the problems
of psychiatry. Until now, cinema of mass distribution, or commercial
cinema, has functioned like an enterprise of mystification, of
enlistment, that consists in making people absorb, willingly or by
force, dominant representations. But here, all of a sudden, one has
the impression it is just the reverse, that a cinema of the masses can
become a form of expression and struggle that is even more effective
than discourses, meetings, pamphlets ...
After having seen Fous a delier I wonder if it isn't abnormal to want
to return such patients to work, since it is work, in fact, that alienates.
You are right. In France · today, certain organizations attempt to
"readapt by work" (according to American methods of conditioning)
the mentally retarded, the insane, the handicapped. At Sainte­
Anne's Hospital, "scientific" methods of conditioning are also
experimented with. There is a major danger here: to think that work
as such can be therapeutic is absurd. What is at issue in Fous a delier
is completely different. The workers of Parma express themselves
very clearly on this point: they don't believe that work is the issue,
but the fact that all these marginal types have the chance to become
people like everyone else. It is not the work that allows them to be
this way, it is the relations they succeed in establishing with the
workers. It is the human warmth of these relations that is so well
conveyed in the film.
Does cinema appear to you to be a minor art
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