Natural Disorder / director and cinematographer, Christian Sønderby Jepsen ; producers, Sidsel Lønvig Siersted, Malene Flindt Pedersen.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sønderby Jepsen, Christian, director.

Lønvig Siersted, Sidsel, producer.

Flindt Pedersen, Malene, producer.

Alexander Street Press.

DR Sales, production company.

Series:

Filmakers Library online

Filmakers library online

Language:

Danish

Subjects (All):

Cerebral palsy.

Identity (Psychology).

People with cerebral palsy.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 minutes).

Place of Publication:

[Denmark] : DR Sales, 2015.

Language Note:

In Danish.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Jacob Nossell is a 27-year-old journalism student with a normal intellect but an impaired body. He has cerebral palsy, which means he has difficulty talking and moving, and he suffers from muscle cramps and stiffness. Mentally, he's on par with his fellow students, and that's the crux of the matter. He's too disabled for society to accept him as normal, but too normal to simply lie down and accept his fate. And what exactly is "normal" anyway? Natural Disorder follows Jacob directing a play for the Royal Danish Theater, in which he explores the meaning of identity and normality and asks what life is all about. He goes out on the streets with a camera and microphone, stopping people to ask what they consider normal. He talks with a doctor of philosophy and neuroscience and gets his brain and his DNA scanned. Producing the play takes its toll on Jacob, and he often comes face to face with his own limitations. This is very hard on him -- for 27 years he has been struggling against those limitations, and his greatest and most constant fear is that he might turn out to be that disabled person he so wants to avoid becoming.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed November 04, 2016).

OCLC:

964566749

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.