GHOST BOY
"BASED ON THE NYT BESTELLER: Martin Pistorius, a bright and healthy South African boy fell into a mysterious coma when he was just 12 years old. Three years later, he woke up, paralyzed and unable to communicate, finding himself suffering from locked-in syndrome and fearful that he would live his life invisible to those around him.
Alternating between vivid, dream-like recreations of Martin’s past and present-day interviews with the charismatic survivor (made possible through text to speech software) the film conveys Martin’s extraordinary journey from total isolation through multiple stages of consciousness and ultimately to the strange but wonderful world of Other People.
“A hell of a story” (RogerEbert.com), SXSW Audience Award winner Ghost Boy “constantly intrigues” (IndieWire) “as a haunting look at one man’s long, devastating struggle to come out of his shell” (The Hollywood Reporter). Following his evocative films Room 237 and The Nightmare, iconoclast Rodney Ascher once again “pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do” (Deadline.)"
- DOC 10