2008 Great Lakes Film Festival 

 

 

 

Severing the Soul

Experimental

Director: Barbara Klutinis

Run Time: 18 mins

 

Synopsis:  

 

Found footage interweaves an account of Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy procedure in 1941 with an overview of the psychosurgery movement of the 1930’s-1960’s in the US.

 

 

 

Starring: 

 

Faith Winthrop
Voice-Over

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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