The World of the Schizophrenic (Le Monde Du Schizophrene)

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Sandoz Laboratories

Complete Record: Psychedelic schizophrenia film, in French. A young man walks by a lake and hears strange voices in French. He travels home and looks at himself in the mirror, and his reflection laughs at him. He breaks the mirror. Many gloved hands from nowhere strangle him. He conducts an atonal symphony, played by monkeys with cellos and violins. At the end of the concert, he combusts. His tuxedo from the performance sits on his bed without him in it, and he reads a magazine filled with pictures of african tribeswomen. Bizarre statues of africans... some with glowing nipples, clocks in their chests, and others that are mutillated. Another statue with prominent breasts, which subsequently turn into faces. He pets a stuffed bird. A small doll lays on a wide, foggy landscape. The doll is taken apart, and it cries in blood. The man is urinated on in reverse. He drowns in mud, forward and reverse. A bust with nails pounded into its head. Man climbs out of a manhole. A doll with smoke, and the man turns a valve. A clay bird rests in a tree, and the man runs down a hall. An owl in a tree, and a hawk. The man contemplates jumping off of a bridge... the owl stares with one blinking eye. An open mouthed statue... the man hears voices. Montage of screaming faces.The man’s head melts... it is made of wax. End.