Johan is a purely documentary film that shows the therapy undergone by a patient suffering from aphasia. Aphasia is an illness that affects the language centre of the brain and that can be generated by, amongst other things, a cerebral tumour or haemorrhage. Patients suffering from aphasia are often subject to chronic memory loss and, as a result of the ensuing semantic or interpretative disturbances, they cannot recognise certain specific objects as such or correctly categorise them.
Also in this combined programme
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Derrida
This documentary portrait of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida is not a biography of the father of the word ‘deconstruction’ or a pleasant philos -
The Breathing Lesson
A middleaged woman caresses the head of a very young girl. After these few seconds of comfort, she resumes a commanding stance and begins to…
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
