HBO Documentary Film Showing and Discussion

“The Living Museum at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center”

“The Living Museum” is a 1998 HBO documentary made by Academy Award winning filmmaker Jessica Yu. This superb film features Dr. Janos Marton, Co-founder and Director of The Living Museum, an art asylum created in an abandoned building on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, NY. Filmed on location, the film features in-depth interviews with a number of the artists in the current CMPS exhibition, ID-EGO-SUPEREGO, including David Waldorf, John Tursi, and Issa Ibrahim. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win numerous awards. We will screen the film in its entirety, followed by a discussion with the audience. Clinicians and the public are welcome.

Janos Marton, PhD, is the co-founder of the Living Museum at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center and has served as its director for more than 25 years. The Living Museum is the first successful model of an Art Asylum in the United States, where patients thrive as artists in a self-run creative environment.

Steven Poser, PhD, is a CMPS faculty member and training analyst. He was a psychotherapy intern for two years on the female ward for chronic schizophrenia at Hudson River Psychiatric Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. An exhibiting artist for more than 20 years, he is currently writing a book about the artist, Forrest Bess, and has published numerous article on psychoanalysis and the arts.

$40

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