DIAGNONSENSE

The self-revalatory film DIAGNONSENSE gives an intimate perspective on director Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård’s fractured coming-of-age journey. For over 15 years, she was labeled with several serious psychiatric diagnoses. Her perpetual treatment process included heavy doses of medication, which left her struggling to distinguish between her own identity and the one explained by her various conditions. In an effort to find herself, she began documenting her life. The result is a unique cinematic universe based on her experiences sculpts a narrative from an extensive collection of private archival footage. Honest, humorous, and touching, the film seeks to understand the underlying issue, and to answer a key question: is receiving a diagnosis ultimately beneficial? What is left after liberating one’s self from the diagnostic system and stopping all medication? When can the real journey – that of living – actually begin?
 
CONTACT: andrew@mattimafilms.com oyvind@mattimafilms.com

TITLE
Diagnonsense

FORMAT
Documentary Feature

PRODUCER
Andrew Grant & Øyvind Gregersen

DIRECTOR
Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård

STATUS
Release 2014

DIAGNONSENSE

A self-reflexive meta-documentary, DIAGNONSENSE begins with filmmaker Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård who was diagnosed with multiple mental disorders over a fifteen-year period, and prescribed a staggering number of psychotropic medications. Ten years ago, she embarked on the first of many attempts to make a film about living with a mental disorder, but each effort was cut short due to new diagnoses, new medications, and new side effects. Now, having weaned herself off the drugs, and reaching a critical distance from her diagnoses, she is ready to tell her story, and to challenge the need for psychological labeling.
 
CONTACT: andrew@mattimafilms.com oyvind@mattimafilms.com

TITLE
Diagnonsense

FORMAT
Documentary Feature

PRODUCER
Andrew Grant & Øyvind Gregersen

DIRECTOR
Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård

STATUS
In pre-production