Unknown White Male
Screening on Film
UK, 2004, 35mm, color, 80 min.
Unknown White Male is the startling story of a man who, for no apparent reason, lost every memory of his friends, his family and every experience he had ever known. Dramatically reconstructing his first terrifying hours of disorientation, this true story follows Douglas Bruce in the hours and months following his amnesia, as he tries to piece his life back together, discovering the world anew. Charting an overwhelming voyage of discovery, much of Unknown White Male was filmed by Bruce himself, who started recording his re-entry into the world just one week after appearing at the Coney Island Hospital Psychiatric ward, not knowing who he was. This advance screening will be introduced by Professor Daniel Schacter, an expert on the psychological and biological aspects of human memory and amnesia.