Lunch & Learn: "Central State Hospital: An Oral History" by Joe Windish

The documentary, 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭: 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, tells the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world. Located in Milledgeville, GA, at its peak in the 1950s, it served more than 15,000 patients in 200 buildings on 2,000 acres of land. The documentary looks at Central State, from its founding in 1842 to the announced closing in 2010, through a series of interviews with former patients, employees, academics, and Milledgeville residents. Mr. Windish shares short excerpts focusing on the courts, immigration, prisons, and homelessness in order to explore how each of the different challenges the hospital faced remains just as salient today. The story of Central State Hospital is more than just a story about a hospital; it is the complicated and troubling story of psychiatric care in America.
𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭: 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 can be found at vimeo.com/6576... or by contacting Joe Windish at [e-mail].
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Joe Windish has been a visual media professional for over 4 decades. A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, his senior film won a student Academy Award. He was a producer on WNYC’s 1983 television program Our Time with Vito Russo. He spent 12 years as the director of a not-for-profit community television corporation that included 6 production locations, 3 television studios, and transmission facilities for 3 cable television channels. In 1999, he joined Mediapolis, a web engineering and development company in New York’s Silicon Alley. At Mediapolis, he served as a senior producer and project manager overseeing projects for companies including Sony Records, Johnson and Johnson, and The New York Times Company. He also managed The New York Times company-owned interactive advertising network, serving 7 million ad units monthly across 8 affiliated sites. He moved to Milledgeville, GA, and in 2004 opened the Interactive Media Lab in Georgia College and State University’s Ina Dillard Russell Library. He went on to serve as the library’s Associate Director for Technology & Operations before leaving to move to Atlanta in 2018. He completed the script, graphics, and edited the Central State Hospital Oral History documentary project, ten years in the making, in 2021. His current work includes independent video, motion graphics, and digital photo restoration projects.
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