Who's Crazy? (Blu-ray)

Long thought to be lost until the only surviving copy was salvaged from director Thomas White’s garage, Who’s Crazy? (1966) is a wild, free-form burst of 1960s experimentalism.

Accompanied by an ecstatic original soundtrack by the great Ornette Coleman, and starring actors from The Living Theatre, Who’s Crazy? follows a group of mental patients who hole up in a deserted Belgian farmhouse, where they cook large quantities of eggs and condemn one of their own in an impromptu court. The actors don’t have much need for words when they can dance around, light things on fire, and
drip hot wax on each other instead.

Ornette Coleman and the other members of his trio – David Izenzon and Charles Moffett – recorded their score for Who’s Crazy? in one go while the film was projected for them, and the result feels like a slapstick silent film with the greatest possible accompaniment.