In what amounts to part autobiographical documentary and part therapy project, Bud Clayman — a middle-aged former film student who was institutionalized for eight years — co-directs what’s subtitled “The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie.’’
This is not always an easy sit, as the socially maladroit Clayman conducts a wildly nonlinear tour of his life. This includes a complicated relationship with a father who employed him as the head of a family foundation, and who funded the documentary as well. (He died before its completion.)
Clayman, who has a winning sense of humor, reconnects with people he knew in college, before his problems resulted in a raft of diagnoses, and even gives speed-dating a whirl. Through it all, Clayman struggles to keep himself, and “OC87,’’ on track — and it’s easy to cheer his ultimate triumph.