Rites Undone Rites Undone is a short documentary tracing the journey of Nigerian victims of sex-trafficking in Italy. The film investigates the psychological methods of control used by sex-traffickers, and explores the epistemic challenges faced by European mental health workers trying to provide treatment across cultural and religious divides. Director Naomi Richman Producers Eddie Bolger... Read more »
Rites Undone is a short documentary tracing the journey of Nigerian victims of sex-trafficking in Italy.
Mass influence is one of the key themes of the Hidden Persuaders project. I was interested in exploring some sites of mass influence in our recent history. My series of three films, on cigarette advertising and non-smoker activism, Beatlemania, and the smartphone, expose and interrogate some old and new anxieties about this influence on others... Read more »
Asylum, Peter Robinson’s 1972 documentary about one of R.D. Laing’s residential ‘clinics’, has just been released on DVD. Katie Joice reviews the film in the context of both Laing’s therapeutics and current debates on mental illness.
