Film Title  A Decay of Control

Creator  McClintock, Madison Ally

Release Date  2015-05-15

Duration  22:02

Summary  A film about toxoplasmosis, a disease which infects 350,000 people a year. The parasite which causes it is only able to reproduce inside cats, but can infect any mammal. The disease is linked to various types of neurological disorders including schizophrenia. Louis Wain, an English artist who drew anthropomorphized pictures of cats, may have suffered from several toxoplasmosis. Two people who have the disease are interviewed.

Keywords  Toxoplasma gondii, Brain, Parasitology, Cats, Schizophrenia, Suicide, mental depression, Traffic accidents, Louis Wain, Dementia, crazy cat-lady syndrome, Brain damage, fatal feline attraction, Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Zoonoses

Thesis Title  Performative non-fiction film and the future landscape of documentary filmmaking

Thesis in ScholarWorks  http://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/9063

Copyright Statement  © Copyright 2015 by Madison Ally McClintock

Copyright URL  http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

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Preferred Citation

A Decay of Control, Filmmaking Archive of the Montana State University Science and Natural History MFA Program, Montana State University (MSU) Library, Bozeman, MT, https://arc.lib.montana.edu/msu-film-archive/item.php?id=192

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