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Prosopagnosia
(2021)

Short stop motion animation

Commissioned by Scottish Documentary Institute's Bridging the Gap programme

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Synopsis

Prosopagnosia uses expressive animation to investigate intimacy, communication and memory.

 

Prosopagnosia means face-blindness and to understand this neurodiverse behaviour, the contents of a memory box are intricately explored.

 

Sketchbooks, photographs and diaries unravel to tell a unique and personal story.

The Project

This film was directed, edited and animated by Steven Fraser.

It deals with Steven's own experience with face blindness.

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Watch the film via the OP DOCS site of the New York Times.

The Trailer

Screenings & Awards

  • Shortlisted for a Grierson award 2022 – Best Documentary Short

  • Submitted to the Academy Awards 2023 – Best Documentary Short

  • Winner – Best Film SHIFT Film Festival | Netherlands | 2022

  • Winner – Experimental Award Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival | 2022

  • Winner – Marvels of Media Award Museum of the Moving Image |New York | 2022

  • Winner - Mini Doc Jury Award Sebastopol Doc Film Festival | California | 2022

  • Winner - Special Doc Jury Prize Indie Street Film Festival | New Jersey | 2022

  • Winner – Celebrating Differences Award - UnLonely Film Festival  | Online | 2023

  • Honorable Mention - RiverRun International Film Festival | North Carolina | 2022

  • Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival | France | 2022 (in competition)

  • IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival | Amsterdam | 2021 (in competition)

  • Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) Glasgow | | 2021 (in competition)

  • Ann Arbor Film Festival | Michigan | 2022 (in competition)

  • Kaboom – Animation Festival | Amsterdam | 2022 (in competition)

  • Annecy International Animation Festival | Annecy | 2022 (in competition)

  • Glasgow Short Film Festival | Glasgow | 2021 (in competition)

  • Flatpack Film Festival | Birmingham | 2022 (in competition)

  • Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival | Poland | 2022 (in competition)

  • British Shorts Film Festival | Berlin | 2022 (in competition)

  • Inverness Film Festival | Inverness | 2021

  • Edinburgh International Film Festival  | Edinburgh | 2021

  • ReelAbilities Film Festival | New York | 2022

  • BFI Flare | London | 2022

  • Salem Film Festival | Massachusetts | 2022

  • European Independent Film Festival| Paris | 2022

  • Seattle International Film Festival | Seattle | 2022

  • ReelAbilities Film Festival | Toronto | 2022

  • St Kilda Film Festival | Australia | 2022

  • ReelAbilities Film Festival | Pittsburgh| 2022

  • Big Umbrella Festival | New York | 2022

  • London International Animation Festival | London| 2022

  • Rooftop Film Summer Series | New York | 2022

  • Séquence Court-Métrage | Toulouse| 2022

  • This is England Film Festival | Rouen| 2022

  • Cucalorus Film Festival | Wilmington NC | 2022

  • ReelAbilities Film Festival | Los Angeles | 2022

  • Sunderland Shorts Film Festival | Sunderland | 2022

  • Bolton International Film Festival | Bolton | 2022

  • Leeds International Film Festival | Leeds | 2022

  • 2022 DOC STORIES | San Francisco | 2022

  • ReelAbilities Film Festival | Colombus Ohio | 2023

  • Brussels International Animation Film Festival | Brussels | 2023

  • Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival | Australia | 2023

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