The house of Dead

Entry 59

Synopsis: Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid institutions which sentence the insane to life imprisonment. The poem   “The house of dead” was written during the filming of the documentary and reveals the forgotten death that occurs in these judicial asylums. There are three stories in three acts of death. Jaime, Antonio & Almerindo are anonymous men, considered dangers to society, whose punishment is the unending cycle of being committed to the asylum, or surviving life imprisonment in the house of dead.