D Is for Distance

This film essay is a montage of contemporary footage, archive material and cinematic history. It tells the story of how one young man’s childhood epilepsy became a symbol of the world’s troubles and how he triumphed against adversity. Co-directed by cult British filmmaker and writer Petit, the film centres on a deeply personal story and becomes a complex treatise on medical power, consumption and the Cold War, drawing on early cinema, animation and the work of William Burroughs. It takes us as far as the Arctic Circle, which has never seemed so warm as in this adventure of a son and his parents.