Jessica Chandler’s astonishing documentary looks at lesbian artist Fargo Deborah Whitman, who has multiple personality disorder (which is now referred to by the more clinical and, frankly, more opaque term disassociative identity disorder or DID). The film screens as part of an especially strong slate at Rendezvous With Madness, a 10-day festival focussing on mental illness, addiction and other odd workings of the mind. By the end of A Fine State This Is, one wonders whether there is anything disordered about Whitman. Her living as a legion of selves, whom she calls “alters” — among them are a gay man, several children and a couple of apes — seems to make a hell of a lot more sense than the ordered repression that we call normal.
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