![]() Re:Awakenings by Bill Morrison was commissioned by New York Live Arts as part of Live Ideas: The Worlds of Oliver Sacks and made possible by The Opaline Fund.įootage of patients, 1969 at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York, courtesy of D r Oliver Sacks. Produced by Anna Bressanin, Images by Ilya Shnitser The original footage has been edited in a new film by Bill Morrison, called Re:Awakenings. He also shared footage he filmed himself with a Super 8 camera when he was working on the patients in the Bronx borough of New York City in the late 1960s. ![]() ![]() Sacks spoke to the BBC about his life and how much we still have to learn about the brain. ![]() New York Live Arts, the arts group led by the choreographer Bill T Jones, has just held a festival called Live Ideas: The World of Oliver Sacks, with theatre, dance and performances dedicated to the neurologist and his exploration of the connection between mind and body. He is still recounting his clinical findings - in the style of his The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - and is currently working on two books.Īnd Sacks's thinking on the working of the brain and the intersection of science and art is still proving an inspiration to artists. The British doctor, whose work inspired the movie Awakenings as well as Harold Pinter's play A Kind of Alaska, is still seeing patients in his adopted home of New York. Oliver Sacks is approaching his 80th birthday, but the renowned neurologist remains prolific. ![]()
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