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Chroma
Featuring: Patricia Lynne Duffy ( Co-Founder, American
Synesthesia Association), Marcia R. Smilak, and Carol J. Steen
Directed and written by: Carrie Schultz
NR: Documentary Short - in festivals
Here's a festival
find. Chroma is an award winning documentary on a subject
I had never heard of called Synesthesia.
Apparently
there are people who have a kind of additional "sense"
or visual gift. They see colors instead of, or along with, their
sight. The subjects here insist it's a gift and not something
they do not feel is an intrusion within their minds.
It's hard
to explain, but Schultz's documentary does a great job at attempting
to make it simple. The director interviews three women with this
neurological phenomenon. In particular, Chromasthesia (hence the
name of the docu-short).
Chromasthesia
is the specific name for Colored-Sound Synesthesia. The documentary
focuses on this segment and the women primarily speak of seeing
letters and numbers in color, sound or music in color, taste or
smell in color. Sounds maddening huh?
The three
Synesthesiasts (sp.) try to shed some light on how they see the
world as we are guided through interviews interwoven with brilliant
kaleidoscopic images that seem as if your locked on Haight Street
circa 1968. The images are trying to share their fascinating eye's
view of life.
The incredible thing Chroma leaves you with is the awareness
that this phenomenon is not sci-fi sensationalism but a fact many
people have and silently live with.
The piece
is both touching and informative as fine documentaries should
be. And director Carrie Schultz has an eye for subject so all
the information flows entertainingly into your brain for digestion.
Find this it is a unique intelligent treat.
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