Film

The Torment Zone

La Region Del Tormento

An unsettling experimental documentary that imagines a guided visit through a national mental hospital, The Torment Zone (La Región del Tormento) delves into the mechanisms of psychiatric and legal control that define the treatment of madness. Blending archival textures, hand-drawn animation, and documentary fragments, Marcello Mercado constructs a surreal and claustrophobic environment where medical and judicial discourses intertwine. The result is both a political and psychological reflection on the boundaries of reason and confinement—an early work that anticipates Mercado’s later investigations into biopower, institutional violence, and the anatomy of control.

Regie

Marcello Mercado

Status

Veröffentlicht

Veröffentlichung

08/04/1991

Originalsprache

Spanisch

Budget

US$ 0 M

Einspielergebnis

US$ 0 M