EVERY 21 SECONDS: LIVING WITH BRAIN INJURY

Resource #
DVD • ETSD714W

Price $149.95

Program Contents:  61 minutes

Captioning: None

Copyright Date: 2007

As a film maker living with a brain injury for the past twelve years, existing on both sides of the durra matter - often times simultaneously, I take the role as guide for the viewer into this foreign, often painful, and extraordinary land. Focusing on the idea of a brain-injury as a rebirth, this film allows eight people to tell their stories and interpret certain moments of their verbal and written expression with images from the beautiful and tender second layer of existence, the sub-durra perspective, the sensitive awakening behind the eyes that we were, first, born with. Even I, trained so well after twelve years, tend to forget my limits, tend to try to live in a world that has not the patience, time, or aptitude to take me under its wing. I am thrown from the nest. I break my fall, barely, and realize I still can not fly. Each time I bruise my feet, it is still a painful experience.