Thanks to academic ice-breakers such a Foucault, Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, the interest in 1970s anti-psychiatric theory and practice has experienced a renaissance, which in 'Out' is manifested in a formally rigorous 'case study', focusing on a sanatorium in Conxo, Spain. A synthesis of documents - newspaper cuttings, slides, Super 8 footage and new interviews - retell the story of madness as a prism for society's 'irrational' repressions in a basic form: text, image, speech. An employee compares the time before and after the reforms of the 1970s, and a former patient verbalises the same experiences as seen from within, in readings of his underground journal 'Black Meat'. Newspaper cuttings at the same time talk about a 'disaster' at Conxo, while footage from a festival held on the premises bears witness to a radical (and romanticizing?) attempt to break down the structural differences between 'normal' and 'deviant' - nota bene at a time when Franco still dictated both. But ...
