Quotes about illness from interviews with remarkable people: living through diagnoses, treatment and recovery. Carefully chosen moments with video and context.
Speaking about your struggles helps others face theirs.
A 'biography' of cancer told as the case history of an entire civilization — humanity's centuries-long attempt to understand an enemy that turns out to be made of its own cells.
A film about loving someone so much you decide to lie to them about the most important thing — and about the cultural gulf that makes that lie feel like care to some and betrayal to others.
Enjoy it now, before it's too late. Just enjoy it as much as you can.
A neurosurgeon's account of learning, at thirty-six, that he had terminal lung cancer — an attempt to work out, from the inside, what gives a life meaning once time stops being an unlimited resource.
A drama about dementia told not as an outside view of an ill man but as an attempt to make the viewer experience, from within, the unraveling of one's own grip on reality.
Obsessive images — obsessions, fears — are the main themes of my art. I transfer them onto the canvas so they do not consume me.
A neurologist's collection of clinical case studies about patients with rare disorders of perception, memory, and movement, turning medical cases into a meditation on what actually constitutes a human self.
A ruthlessly precise film about how love turns into caring for a body that is dying in front of you.
A psychiatrist with forty years of trauma treatment behind him shows that overwhelming experience imprints itself not only on memory but on the body, which is why talk alone is often not enough to heal it.
A dying father's race to set right what he can — his children, his conscience, the people caught in his shadow economy — before time runs out.