In Vivid Detail

 
Credits
2007, 20 mins. (NYU)
Director: Dara Bratt
Writers: Dara Bratt & Kieran Dick
Producer: Sharon Barnes
Editor: Dara Bratt
Director of Photography: Kathryn Westergaard
Cast: John Ventimiglia, Piper Perabo
 
About
This tender love story profiles Justin, an architect who is face blind, as he begins a new romance. Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, an impairment to recognize faces, is the result of damage to the right temporal lobe. Similar to people who are colorblind and still see colors but are unable to tell them apart, prosopagnosiacs perceive faces but cannot distinguish them. Justin and Leslie must decide whether their new relationship can overcome the obstacles ahead of them as they try to cope with this bizarre and rare diagnosis. In Vivid Detail addresses the following questions: What are the details we notice about other people and how is this information processed? Can elements, perceived in wholes, be broken down to basic math points? And on a simpler note, how is beauty measured?

In Vivid Detail premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007
 
Online Resources
Prosopagnosia, National Institutes of Health (NINDS)
Prosopagnosia, Prosopagnosia Research Centers
Face blindness, Wired
In Vivid Detail on imdb.com
In Vivid Detail at the Tribeca Film Festival