Description |
1 online resource (60 min.) |
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Health and society in video |
Summary |
This film follows four people suffering from brain disorders, who are undergoing groundbreaking medical treatments involving the electric stimulation of the brain. The prospect of manipulating our minds with machines has for decades been considered science fiction, but the accelerating advancements of brain sciences today are materializing into a genuine cure for the millions of people suffering from brain disorders. Each of the patients, a ten-year old born with severe epilepsy, a clinically depressed octogenarian, a photographer with bipolar disorder, and a young father who suffers from dystonia, undergoes a series of controversial treatments from electric shock therapy to invasive neurosurgery. The film raises questions about man and machines, ethics and technology, our body, and the mystery of our mind |
Notes |
"Produced with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Israeli Film Council, the New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & Television." |
Credits |
Editors, Enat Sidi & Nadav Harel ; cinematographer, Nadav Harel ; music, Ariel Levinsohn |
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Closed captioning in English |
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In English and Hebrew with subtitles in English |
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Shown during the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, 2010 |
Subject |
Brain damage -- Alternative treatment
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Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
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Brain -- Research -- Israel
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Documentary films -- Israel
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Electric stimulation.
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Electroencephalography.
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Electric Stimulation
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Electroencephalography
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Brain damage -- Alternative treatment
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Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
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Brain -- Research
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Documentary films
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Electric stimulation
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Electroencephalography
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Israel
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Genre/Form |
documentary film.
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Documentary films
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Nonfiction films
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Harel, Nadav, director, producer
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Sidi, Enat, editor
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Ḳeren ḥa-ḥadashah le-ḳolnoʻa ule-ṭeleṿizyah.
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Noprocess Films
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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (2010)
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