FILM SCREENING of"Breaking the Chains"
February 21 (Wed), 2024, 15:00 - 17:30 (JST)FORMER KYOTO PRIZE LIBRARY ROOM,
1st Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Map: https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access-2[FORMAT] IN PERSON ONLY
Please register: https://forms.gle/mtvrGfF2J4nndx8N7Registration
HERE*We will have dinner with Prof. Colucci and Dr. Ito after the screening. If you would like tojoin the dinner as well, please register before February 14 (Wed).

ProgramLANGUAGE DURING THE EVENT: English

15:00-15:05 Opening remarks
15:05-15:15 Introduction by the movie director, Prof. Erminia Colucci
15:15-16:20 Film screening of "Breaking the Chains"
16:20-16:35 Discussion by Dr. Kasumi Ito
16:35-16:45 Response by Prof. Erminia Colucci
16:45-17:30 Q&A

Presenter/ Movie DirectorErminia Colucci
CSEAS fellow at Kyoto University (Japan)
Professor of Visual Psychology and Cultural & Global
Mental Health in the Department of Psychology at
Middlesex University London (UK)
Visiting Professor at Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)

DiscussantKasumi Ito
Eminent Associate Professor of the Institute of Ars Vivendi
at Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

Organisers

Mario Lopez, Chika Yamada, Youdiil Ophinni (CSEAS)[CONTACT] Chika Yamada

chika128@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Co-organizer: Event Planning Committee & Visual Documentary Project (VDP)ABOUT THE FILM
Released in 2015
Duration: 63’47’’
Audio: Mostly in Indonesian and Sundanese with English,
Italian, and Arabic
Subtitle: English, Japanese[SYNOPSIS]
The prac tice of using shackles and chains tophysically restrain people with mental illness (knownas pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in manyother developing/low middle income countries) andalmost universally ignored. This obser vational
ethnographic documentary explores the beliefs andsocial norms regarding pasung and tells an original
story about the social and political activism to free people from this practice and theprocess that leads to the release of victims of pasung such as Yayah, a young woman
who has been chained inside a small room for 17 years. In particular, the film follows
the activities that have been initiated by an organization in Cianjur (West Java) that isled and run by people with mental health problems.
"Breaking the Chains" researches an important topic (faith-based practices formental suffering) that is under-researched in medical anthropology and is a rareexample of applied visual ethnography in the field.
This film is part of the photo/film-documentary series "Breaking the chains: Humanrights violations against people with mental illness." For more info, please visit
https://movie-ment.org/breakingthechains[FILM TRAILER]

Film trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4SrfHd7EGk

CSEAS fellow at Kyoto University (Japan)
Professor of Visual Psychology and Cultural & Global Mental Health in the Department ofPsychology at Middlesex University London (UK)
Visiting Professor at Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)

Erminia Colucci has a background in Cultural Psychiatry (PhD), Visual Anthropology (MPhil), Education (PGCert), DataAnalysis (PGDip) and Cultural and Community Psychology (BSc and Hons). Her main area of research are human rights
and mental health, suicide and suicide prevention, domestic violence against women and children, spirituality andfaith-based/traditional healing, and first-hand stories of people with lived-experience of ‘mental illness’ and suicidal
behaviour, with a focus on low-middle income countries and ethnic minorities and refugee populations. Erminia ispassionate about using arts-based and visual methodologies, particularly photography and ethnographic
film-documentary and participatory visual methods, in her research, teaching and advocacy activities. Erminia is thefounder of Movie-ment, Aperture - the first Asia-Pacific ethnographic documentary festival - and Co-chair of the World
Association of Cultural Psychiatry SIG on Arts, Mental Health and Human Rights.
For more info, please visit https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/colucci-erminia andhttps://movie-ment.org

Eminent Associate Professor of the Institute of Ars Vivendi at Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

Kasumi Ito's research focuses on global social movements of users and survivors of psychiatry and people withpsychosocial disabilities. She has interviewed the activists and described the histories of movements. She has also been
involved in the movements as an ally. Her main work is Seishin-shogaisha no Gurobaru na Kusa-no-ne Undo: Rentai no
Naka no Tayo-sei [Global Grassroots Movements of People with Psychosocial Disabilities: Diversity in Solidarity] (2021,Seikatsu shoin)

FILM SCREENING of "Breaking the Chains"
February 21 (Wed), 2024, 15:00 〜 17:30 (JST)CSEAS WEB・ACCESS