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Titicut Follies is a 1967 American direct cinema documentary film produced, written, and directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall. It deals with the patient-inmates of Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Jan 10, 2024 · Read our critical review of 'Titicut Follies,' a groundbreaking documentary that exposes the stark reality of life inside a state prison for the criminally insane. Discover the film's profound impact on mental health awareness and the ethical debates it sparked in documentary filmmaking.
Sep 26, 2012 · The pattern of dehumanization and humiliation documented by Frederick Wiseman in TITCUT FOLLIES (1967) prefigures the abuses committed by the U.S. military at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by some 30 years.
Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies” was filmed in 1966 at the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Mass. It was shown at the 1967 New York Film Festival, had two limited runs in New York and — aside from a few screenings before film societies — has had no other distribution.
Feb 29, 2008 · These two scenes, which open Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies (1967), are stunning for what they reveal, but also for how they are revealed. At its most literal, Titicut Follies is about the conditions inside the Bridgewater (Massachusetts) State Prison for the Criminally Insane.
Apr 28, 2017 · Frederick Wiseman's controversial 1967 documentary Titicut Follies exposed conditions at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts. Fifty years later, the filmmaker, now 87, has adapted it to...
Apr 22, 2016 · “Titicut Follies, as you see in the film, was organized around an inmate and staff variety show called Titicut Follies. In naming the film Titicut Follies, I picked up on the metaphor of the variety show,” said Wiseman, acknowledging that “for my other films, I’ve always had rather laconic titles.”
