“Traumatic memories are not stored like other memories. They're encoded in a way that makes them feel like they're still happening—they haven’t been placed in the past.”
Daniela Schiller, PhD, Director of the Schiller Lab, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine
“Healing happens when we witness those memories without being triggered by them.” Paul Browde, M.D, Psychiatrist
MEMORY, TRAUMA AND CREATIVITY
THE SCIENCE BEHIND SEE MEMORY is the brand new, second part of SEE MEMORY. It brings leading neuroscientists and psychiatrists quoted throughout the narration of the art film on camera to share additional insight. Experts like Neuroscientist Daniela Schiller, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Robert Elvove, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University; psychiatrist Paul Browde, M.D.; and psychotherapist Cheryl Dolinger Brown, LCSW provide insights into memory’s impact on our sense of self. They reveal new discoveries of the bridges between the unconscious and the conscious brain and targeted therapies that can help relocate traumatic memories from the posterior cingulate cortex (which holds only present thoughts but can become a repository for trauma) to the hippocampus, where long term memories are processed and organized.
In addition to Viviane Silvera’s paintings, the film’s use of art includes a haunting and evocative score - composed for the first half by Emmy-nominated composer Paul Brill and for the second half by David John Williamson, trumpet player for Mumford and Sons.
PRODUCTION STILLS
