This is not about me
video, 56 minutes, 2021
What is it like to be autistic and non-speaking in a world that has already made up its mind about you? Jordyn Zimmerman dreams of becoming a teacher and starts out eager to learn at school, but soon she is separated from the other children. Unable to communicate, teachers think she is also unable to understand or learn. Year after year, her behavior worsens. She is restrained and placed in seclusion, finding herself caught in a system that unintentionally turns her life into a living nightmare. Finally, at the age of 18, with the help of educators who see her differently, Jordyn manages to turn her fate and flourish.
Marco Niemeijer - writer, director, image, sound recording, editor, producer / Selle Sellink - sound design, sound mix / Arend Bruijn - music / AW art department - graphic design / Gerhard van der Beek - grading / Diego Gutierrez - editing advice
shorts in commission, 2011-2019
Aller vers les autres / Why Lost Voice Guy lost his patience too / On mange quoi? / Day a week school / One thumb to rule them all / Tell us, we want to know / Head designed / Text to speech, how it works / Pictello, all their stories / We can because we think we can / He always understood / From the ground up / What I did this morning / Look ma, no hands / Me and my computer / Behind the scenes with lost voice guy / It’s all there / C’est l’entrée dans l’ère moderne / Communication is conversation / It really has become his voce / A voice for my son / It has made the world of difference / Type, speek, communicate / Het belang van kinderstemmen / Behind the scenes with Merel and Thijs / Giving children a voice of their own / still enjoying our time together / news to you / just an ordinary day / taking my son to school / Emily