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Re: awakenings / a film by Bill Morrison ; Hypnotic Pictures.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemic encephalitis--Patients.
- Epidemic encephalitis.
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
- Sacks, Oliver.
- Video art.
- Patients.
- Genre:
- Experimental films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (18 min.) : digital, sound, color and black and white
- Other Title:
- Re:awakenings
- Reawakenings
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Silent film with English intertitles, credits and musical accompaniment.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Original Super 8 footage shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks of his patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY, who were administered the drug L-Dopa in the summer of 1969 and "awakened" after decades of inactivity is featured in this cine-poem that combines archival footage with a score for solo saxophone composed by Philip Glass.
- Credits:
- Music by Philip Glass.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Hypnotic Pictures, ©2013.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 14, 2020).
- Publisher Number:
- if-reaw Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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