François Pain is a filmmaker based in Paris known for his specializing in films related to experiments in alternative psychiatry.

Life and work

François Pain is cofounder of the Federation of NonCommercial Free Radios and Radio Tomato and co-produced Unchained Channel (1991) and Chaosmédia (1994).

Pain began his interest in alternative psychiatry

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

 when he worked with Félix Guattari

Félix Guattari

Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and semiotician; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy...

 in the private clinic of La Borde. Based on this experience of linguistics, schizoanalyse, antipsychiatry and social revolution, he produced the 90 minute long Monument à Félix Guattari, le film in 1991 in collaboration with Jean-Jacques Lebel

Jean-Jacques Lebel

Jean-Jacques Lebel is a French artist, poet, poetry publisher, political activist and scholar born in Paris in 1936. He is known primarily for his work with Happenings, and as an art theory writer and art curator. He is the son of Robert Lebel, art critic and friend of Marcel Duchamp.-Life and...

. In 1994 the film was installed as part of a large assemblage

Assemblage (art)

Assemblage is an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects...

 entitled Monument à Félix Guattari

Félix Guattari

Pierre-Félix Guattari was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and semiotician; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy...

in the Forum of the Centre Pompidou.