Rendezvous with Madness film festival review - Geoff Pevere Nov. 2016 

Land of Not Knowing

STEVE SANGUEDOLCE / 2016 / CANADA / 71 MINUTES / ENGLISH / WORLD PREMIERE / RATED 18A

In this bold new experimental documentary, four artists talk about suicide: the role the recurring thought has played in their life and art, the struggle to understand and overcome the impulse, and the ongoing confrontation with a form of stigma that renders the very concept of suicide as a kind of pariah even among mental health issues and discussions. With a frankness that is both bracing and illuminating, Sanguedolce's subjects tell their stories, and the filmmaker responds with a striking visual scheme that permits us something rarely attempted in the engagement with this most misunderstood of conditions: a sense of first person understanding.