Voices From Within

Directed by: Ellie Walton & Joy Haynes Released: 2020 (educational) Year of Production: 2014 Running Time: 24 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Physical and Mental Health, American Studies     Voices From Within explores the complicated process of recovery through the eyes of two long-term residents of Saint Elizabeths, Washington DC's public psychiatric hospital. Found not guilty by reason of insanity Lew and Jimmy, through the intimacy of video diaries, share their daily struggles with mental illness, isolation, and the journey for redemption. We learn how they feel to have spent most of their lives under constant surveillance, where their every action is deemed a symptom of a diagnosis, and their freedom of movement is in constant negotiation by a complicated system of restrictions and privileges.          By putting the cameras directly into their hands, we witness their transformation from examined to examiner. The film tak