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CAST
Katie/Anxious Katie – Katie Marovitch
Katie Stand In – Kendall Morris
Cynthia – Cynthia Kao
Zac – Zac Oyama
Siobhan – Siobhan Thompson
Trapp – Mike Trapp
Landlord – Alex Edge
Andrea – Andrea Chrunyk
CREW
Director – Sammi Cohen
Producer – Julia Bales
Writer – Katie Marovitch
Cinematography – Morgan Demeter
President of Original Content – Sam Reich
Vice President of Production / Executive Producer – Spencer Griffin
Director of Production – Sam Sparks
Supervising Producer – Alex Edge
Production Coordinator – Shane Crown
Asst. Production Coordinator – Frankie McLafferty
Production Designer – Madelyn Kime
Camera Operator – Carmen Emmi
1st Assistant Camera – Ray Lee
2nd Assistant Camera / DIT – Ben Anderson
Gaffer – Casey Merritt
Key Grip – Brett Frager
Production Sound – Chris Bennett of BoTown Sound
HMU – Alex French
Assistant Editor – Marissa Melnyk
Editor: Sammi Cohen/Michael Schaubach
Post Production Supervisor – Stephanie Zorn
Head Assistant Editor – Phil Fox
Licensing and Programming Coordinator – Theodora Hart
Production Legal – Karen Segall
Production Accountant – Shay Parsons
Production Accountant – Chetera Bell
Production Intern – Yael Egnal
Post Production Intern – Marissa Melnyk
Assistant Editor: Marissa Melnyk
Editor: Sammi Cohen / Michael Schaubach
Post Supervisor: Stephanie Zorn Video Rating: / 5
What is it like to live with Asperger’s syndrome? Jordan Kamnitzer tries to answer that question in “Perfectly Normal,” this week’s Op-Doc. It’s beautifully directed by Joris Debeij, who frames Kamnitzer’s experiences and ideas with evocative cinematography and editing, giving us a beautiful but challenging glimpse into another way of being.
In a related essay, the writer Eli Gottlieb describes it as “a rare filmic experience of the sensory overload of autism … as Jordan, the articulate middle-aged subject of the film, speaks about his own condition, the music skitters and booms, rapid jump cuts intensify the sense of danger, and in this swelling moment of uncertainty, the viewer experiences a fleeting sense of what it might be like to live in a condition of permanent, anxious neural flood.”
Gottlieb grew up with a severely autistic older brother, but even after 40 years, “find[s] his emotional and cognitive process as fundamentally mysterious as ever. The impenetrability of autism, with its seemingly endless variants and its essential “otherness,” is its hallmark. All this renders Jordan’s testimony that much more useful and intriguing. He is a reporter at a hinge-point of consciousness, able to inhabit his condition while describing it for us — whether we are “neurotypicals” or lodged somewhere on the spectrum — with remarkable precision and insight.”
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