And if the body
16mm/VR/animation, 27 min, 2025
And if the body is a short film exploring the strange new world of neurotechnology, and its use in the treatment of spinal cord injury and other neuromuscular disorders. Filmed in clinical research labs among scientists, doctors, physical therapists, and their patients, it considers the changed bodies and selves emerging from these novel entanglements of humans and technology. A meditation on the disrupted body, and its re-enchantment.
Key credits
Director, producer: Toby Lee
Creative consultant: Courtney Stephens
Edit: Iva Radivojevič
Score, sonic composition, sound design: Beny Wagner, Tom Fisher/Action Pyramid
VR design & build: David Lasala, Andrew Stapp
Camera: Ian Duffy, Thom Neal, Sebastien Scandiuzzi, Bayley Sweitzer
Sound recording: Federico Bolagno, David Schwartz, Charlie Spears, Nathaniel Watkins
Featuring: Katelijne Langezaal, Chet Moritz, Earl Joseph Beatty, Sam Njoroge, Soshi Samejima, Fatma Inanici, John Lee, Simon Giszter, Rohan O’Reilly, Kerrie Robinson, Graham Robinson, Hayley Ballard, Sam Bloom, John Abel, Maria Knikou, Lynda Murray, Timothy Pulverenti, Anamul Islam
Made with support from Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Kodak, New York State Council on the Arts, New York University, The Standby Program, UnionDocs: Center for Documentary Art.
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