I Remember Better When I Paint

I Remember Better When I Paint is a feature length international documentary film about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies in people with Alzheimers disease and how these approaches can change the way the disease is viewed by society. The film examines the way creative arts bypass the limitations of dementia disorders such as Alzheimers and shows how patients stillvibrant imaginations are strengthened through therapeutic art.

The documentary includes interviews with renowned neurologists who explain how creative activities engage areas of the brain that are not damaged by the disease and thus reawaken a sense of personality, identity and dignity. Doctors interviewed include Robert Neil Butler, founding director of the National Institute of Aging Sam Gandy of Mount Sinai Medical Center Gene D. Cohen of George Washington University Robert Green and Bob Stern of Boston University and Avertano Noronha of the University of Chicago. The film demonstrates the intersection between the arts, medical and scientific worlds.The film was selected for the 2016 Flager Film Festival, the 2010 Rhode Island International Film Festival and the 2009 Bel Air Film Festival. In 2014 and 2015 the film broadcast nationwide on public televisions stations in the United States during November Alzheimers Awareness month. I Remember Better When I Paint has been released as part of a DVD package which includes the documentary as well as a series of short supplemental films that further highlight special programs and flesh out the howtos of organizing an outing, a creative workshop or recreating social bonds between people with Alzheimers and their families. ........

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