Bryn Higgins : 2014
When Lily O'Connor, a witty, sexy, searingly defiant Northerner with temporal lobe epilepsy and a traumatic past finds out that the brother she's long thought dead could still be alive, she risks her life to go in search of him. Held back by her regular epileptic seizures – electrical storms in her mind and body that play havoc with even the simplest social scenario – this is a journey through the real world and through the wildly hallucinatory, disturbing inner world of epilepsy. Lily sees everything in terms of angles: you look at every surface, weigh up every corner and think of your head slamming into it. Her epilepsy summons flashbacks, spectral figures, even birds emerging from her throat. And in the wrong place at the wrong time it can kill her. When an inheritance presents itself, Lily abandons her safe routine in a seaside town and heads into the treacherous underbelly of London. Embarking on a quest to find her wayward brother to give him his share, she pushes herself to new physical and emotional limits in an attempt to connect her past and her future. Bryn Higgins's feature premiered at London Film Festival 2014.
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