D Is for Distance reimagined: memory, road, and the politics of perception
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Marina Ashioti traces how Louis Petit’s epilepsy becomes a lens for a broader meditation on memory, care, and the fragility of identity. Christopher Petit and Emma Matthews direct this personal inquiry toward a larger, formally adventurous film project.
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The road opening anchors the piece, nodding to Christopher Petit’s signature road-movie sensibility from Radio On (1979). Through a wandering montage of home videos, medical encounters, and Louis’s drawings, the film migrates from intimate crisis toward a wider cultural conversation about film history and Cold War paranoia.
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It braids tensions around William Burroughs and James Angleton into a prism for exploring mind control myths, LSD-era experiments, and evolving treatment of epilepsy. The result is a bold but sometimes overstuffed collage whose ambition can overshadow its emotional grounding in memory and personal struggle.
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Running time: 90 minutes. Release window: early April 2026.
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