American Film Institute - Film History - Narration - Documentary
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film. The cinema motion pictures, even from the silent days in the 19 twenties, has proven to be an art form particularly suitable for the handling of intimate psychological subjects. It is a medium of observation, the almost clinical recording of human behavior, but every nuance of expression and gesture enhanced and the close up. As a highly controlled flow of images, film is uniquely able to reflect the flux of mental and emotional experience. Madness, which raises basic questions about the nature of those experiences, has been a very popular subject for filmmakers. For the film Artists, Madness is a subject that probes the darkest and most hidden side of our being.