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2026 NY EMMY AWARD WINNER · DIRECTING

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What if you could paint a new picture of your past?

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An Emmy Award–winning, hand-painted documentary exploring how memory shapes us—and how it can change.

Available for classrooms, medical education, clinical training, staff wellness, and community screenings.

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A hand-painted film created from over 30,000 paintings exploring how memory works—and how it can change.

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See Memory has been presented in medical, academic, clinical, and interdisciplinary settings where art, neuroscience, memory, and healing meet.

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The Question Behind See Memory

What if memory is not a fixed record, but something alive?

See Memory uses more than 30,000 hand-painted images to explore how memory is formed, altered, and carried through emotion, trauma, story, and the body. Grounded in neuroscience and visual storytelling, the film asks whether we can learn to see the past differently, not by erasing what happened, but by changing our relationship to what we remember.

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2026 NY Emmy Award Winner

Three Emmy Nominations

2025 Telly Award Winner for 2D Animation

SEE MEMORY won the 2026 New York Regional Emmy Award for Directing, following three Emmy nominations recognizing the film's health and medical storytelling, visual artistry, and direction. The film also received the 2025 Telly Award for 2D Animation, honoring its hand-painted animation.

Directed, painted, and animated by Viviane Silvera, SEE MEMORY is composed of more than 30,000 individually hand-painted frames. The film visualizes how memory is formed, fragmented, and reshaped, bridging neuroscience, trauma research, and visual art.

SEE MEMORY has screened at more than 50 institutions worldwide, including Yale, UCLA, Tufts, Vassar, the Friedman Brain Institute, the Edward Hopper House Museum, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Now booking for 2026–2027: Bring this Emmy Award–winning PBS documentary to your university, museum, medical school, hospital, mental health organization, or community. Invite director Viviane Silvera for a screening, Q&A, lecture, or workshop exploring the intersection of art, neuroscience, memory, and healing.

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BRIDGING ART AND SCIENCE TO HEAL TRAUMA AND INSPIRE HOPE

“A stunning dramatization of the complexity and emotional power of human memory. An entirely new way of imagining memory, trauma and emotional experience. It’s beauty is matched only by its brilliance.”

- R. John Williams, Professor, Yale University

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REACHING NATIONAL AUDIENCES

Filmmaker and painter Viviane Silvera has been recognized for her work in national publications and podcasts.

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THE SEE MEMORY PROJECT

"Art captures the personal, emotional experience in a way science cannot."

-Daniela Schiller, PhD. The Schiller Lab, Mount Sinai

  • Through it’s unique and accessible blend of art and science SEE MEMORY can reach people of ALL AGES, many who cannot otherwise be reached

  • SEE MEMORY helps parents, children, teachers, and therapists build trust and understanding through shared conversations about memory.

  • SEE MEMORY can be used as a therapeutic tool

    “I began to use excerpts as an augmentation tool to psychotherapy with patients who have been victims of trauma. The response has been outstanding.”

    -Dr. Silvana Riggio, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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 OUR SCREENING PARTNERS

SEE MEMORY and The See Memory Project are made possible by generous partners who recognize the need for the use of art to express science, spread understanding and a compassionate approach to mental illness. We extend our deepest graditute to:

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“Silvera has created a thoroughly original, physical analog to memory reconsolidation. “

— Harper Kincaid, Whitehot Magazine 

“Playful and intriguing. An illuminating combination of the intimate and the expansive.”

— Joe Neumaier, Film Journalist & Host, WOR Movie Minute


“A beautiful thing, a film that stimulates both the heart and the mind”

— Kent Hill, Film Threat

“Bridges art and science to communicate profound insights about memory."

- Camilla Dangot, Brown University Art Paper


“Opens the door to understanding the science of memory. The response has been outstanding.”

Dr. Silvana Riggio, Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


“Blends art, therapy and science seamlessly.”

Paul Browde, M.D, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University


“I was thoroughly impressed by the film's insights about the dynamics and subtleties of memories.”

Daniela Schiller, Ph.D. Director of the Schiller Lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


“The best part of our event was See Memory and the Q & A with Viviane. ” 

Michele H. Jacob, PhD, Neuroscientist, Tufts University


“Offers beautiful, reframing language that can support those with an often overlooked diagnosis.”

Gina Smith, International Rescue Committee


“Illuminates pathways to hope.”

Dale M. Kushner, author of The Conditions of Love and M, columnist for Psychology Today.


“An amazing introduction to how traumatic memories form an impediment to living one's life to its fullest and a tool to combat stigma around mental health."

Ramina Bebezova, Tufts University, Coordinator of Student-led Mental Health Organization