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An artist-filmmaker-psychoanalyst's quest to reconstruct her life after attempting to end it
Learning to Speak is a personal documentary that chronicles the filmmaker's journey from emotional breakdown, through treatment, to self-discovery. Following the death of her father, she revisits the open psychiatric hospital where she spent three and a half years after a suicide attempt in her early twenties, seeking to understand its impact on her life and make sense of the fragments of her past. The film delves into the challenges she faced in finding her voice and expressing her inner world, revealing how art ultimately became a means of communication and self-discovery.
Run Time: 50 minutes
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DIRECTED, WRITTEN, PRODUCED, EDITED
Michele Beck
CAMERA
Sebastian Currier
Pawel Wojtasik
Donnie Rogers
Andrea Rogers
EDITOR
Adam Zucker
MUSIC
Sebastian Currier
SOUND DESIGN & MIX
Quentin Chiappetta
COLOR GRADING
Bjorn Bellenbaum
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Dot Rose
Carrie Rubinstein
THANK YOU
Edward Shapiro, MD
Eric Plakun, MD
Samar Habl, MD
Marilyn Charles, PhD
Jane Tillman, PhD
John Zollinger
Aaron Beatty
Lisa Lewis
Diane Heckman
Michael McCarthy
Jill Gibbons
Maggie Mailer
Ed Orbach
Claudia Jaul
SPECIAL THANKS
Jorge Calvo
VERY SPECIAL THANKS
The Austen Riggs Center
WITH DEEP GRATITUDE
Anton Hart, PhD
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