When Mrs Tan regained consciousness, Mr Tan also had to manage his wifes agitation towards her weakened condition and new disability called aphasia. Lotje describes herself as hard-working, a traveler, someone who has lots of friends, someone who loves to read. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he eventually decides to wake up a second passenger', Is nothing sacred? As Tom chops the kindling while I write this, I feel so very fortunate to be here in the sumptuous stillness, with the singing of tawny owls in the evening. Q: Hello, Lotje! Wed had one meeting, and she really stuck in my mind. Her facial grimace betrays how bleak that reality seems to herdespite theattempt to expressthe thought with a smile. Starring: Sophie Robinson, Lotje Sodderland Watch all you want. Sodderland is lucky to be alive, having suffered a massive stroke which left her unable to speak, read, write and perform even simple tasks. Like many of the UK's 1.2 million stroke survivors, Sodderland spent months trying to relearn how to navigate this new world, where thoughts followed no structure and words lost their meaning. films; about; bla-bla; The Infinit Magic of Having Less. Apple should pay you guys some money! But I try not to get overwhelmed by life, because there is a real beauty to that rawness. Though I can write, I still can't read because of the damage to my right visual cortex - all my correspondence is done through Siri on my iPhone. Watch Vogue.coms most popular videos now: By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. The film was initiated by its protagonist herself. Everyone is so pissed about this remake of the Robin Williams cult hit that it will be a miracle if it escapes a critical drubbing, Martin Scorsese's next film doesn't have a mafioso or corrupt banker in sight. Photo: Eric Charbonneau / Courtesy of Netflix. When he agreed to put his name to it, he insisted that Lotje and I share the executive producer credit with him. Then she would strap cables to my head and apply a couple of milliamps of current to my brain for 20 minutes. I want to learn more words to argue and feel more like a married couple So, I am going to keep practising until I succeed, she laughed. Q: Can you share any practices or therapies that you found useful in your recovery? I worked at an advertising agency that was doing some documentary content, and Sophie was a well-established documentary director who had done several science-based programs and series for the BBC. I earn a living that way, but I no longer read and write. But also I used it just on a practical level, to remember things, like meetings with doctors, and to communicate with friends, because I couldnt read or write. Her brother is also joyful: She is alive! Sky High: The Series He invited us to this strange, magical event in London a few days later, where they were going to beam him in. Butbeforethe end of the therapy, Lotje experiences generalized seizure and is taken to the hospital. Someone told me that the quietest place in London was the Bethnal Green Buddhist Centre. He said, Do you remember me? 34 year old Lotje Sodderland's personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of her own brain following a life changing hemorrhagic stroke. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. The fog was lifting. A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS. Lotje Sodderland was a digital producer at a hip London creative agency when she suffered a stroke that decimated her language skills and threw her sensory perception into disarray. I struggled to find the logic in a toothbrush, or the system that goes with the washing of hair, even though I knew (without really understanding) that these behaviours were a necessary part of human life. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. At the age of 34 Lotje Sodderland suffered a stroke that almost killed her but left her with a fascination with the science that saved her life. Because I still cant read. Join Facebook to connect with Lotje Sodderland and others you may know. I enjoyed the daily trip, and being surrounded by neuroscientists; Iliked the sense of being an active participant, rather than a passive patient. I enjoy silence now, otherwise I cant sleep - my brain cant close down if has too much input during the day. Lotje Sodderland is known for My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014), Limbo (2021) and Can You Rebuild My Brain? Before the stroke, I think my friends found my cynical sense ofhumour entertaining. But I used diagrams and drawings and eventually he understood. Sodderland saw parallels between the almost hallucinatory things she was experiencing and David Lynch films. There was a lot of Siri action involved there. Clint Eastwood will direct this biopic, about an airline captain who was hailed as a national hero in the US after successfully executing an emergency water landing on the Hudson River off Manhattan, It's 2015 and Bridget is now pouring her soul into an iPad rather than a diary. That required a period of mourning for my old life, and then a period of acceptance. My therapist took me to the bank to get new pin codes and cards, so that I would be able to get my own groceries. He had called the ambulance asmy eyeballs disappeared into the back ofmyhead. But Lotje, as you can hear on the phone and see in the film, is massively articulate and knows exactly what she wants. But everyday life no longer made sense to my new brain. Im not dead. Yet, she also shares her perspective as a patientduring this process: The experience of being defined by what you can no longer do or how you are limited becomes devastating. She admits that it takes a very long time to get used to a new brain.. Since the stroke, I've had to really transform my lifestyle and accept that things are going tobe very different. She lost two years of her memory, forgetting her own daughter and even asking whether she herself was Chinese. I knew who I was, and I recognised my mother and brother -but I didnt know anything else. A language therapist asked me to write down a story idea, and then to tell her the story using my written notes to guide me. SXSW. I was filled with faith that this was going to work, and was prepared to overlook the gruelling downsides, including the discomfort of the daily currents andthe punishing, repetitive boredom. I had spent the weekend with friends, watching fireworks over London, and trying to make impossible things happen for a deadline at work, where I was a documentary producer. Ive worked on a new character, becoming more patient, more accepting, kinder to myself and to the people around me. I remember the cognitive psychologist drawing a diagram to indicate where on the scale my old intellect had been, and where it was now. It could have happened at any time. My date of birth? In mid-January, I was admitted to the rehabilitation unit at Homerton hospital for a three-month period. But I had this desire to document everythinga sense of wanting to make a documentary, but not in a very logical, coherent way. He then invited Sodderland to a video conference he was doing and when she went to LA on holiday Lynch invited her over for coffee. The day we met, in early January, Tom took me for a drive through the savage beauty of Bodmin Moor, with its yellow gorse and wild horses. An excruciating pain in my head woke me up in the early hours. It helped me to communicate - sending messages to friends and remembering what questions I wanted to ask the doctors. Also, I think that speech and language therapy is such an amazing and helpful job to help people regain their communication skills which is a fundamental part of life. She made it her mission afterwards to understand. Hopefully the new TV show will offer something a bit less action-orientated and a bit more cerebral, The Bourne series completely went off the boil with Jeremy Renner as its lead, but now both Matt Damon and original director Paul Greengrass are back to steady the ship. When Lotje Sodderland woke up in hospital following a stroke, she charted her recovery by making videos on her iPhone. Read on for more from my conversation with the filmmakers, about their collaboration, how they got David Lynch on board, and what Sodderlands life looks like these days. Aphasia SG is a not-for-profit organisation supporting persons with aphasia and their caregivers. A formidable Baltic nurse ripped the metal staples from my blood-caked scar. And shes an engaging, lovely, warm person. From picking their next holiday to setting up their marital home, a stroke diagnosis was the last thing that the couple in their early forties had in mind. When we first see Sodderland in the riveting new Netflix documentary My Beautiful Broken Brain (premiering Friday after a run at SXSW), shes recording herself on her iPhone in the hospital shortly after regaining consciousness. As part of her recovery she designed a motivational psychological programme and she has now developed the app "Recovery After a Brain Injury" to help people faced with similar challenges. The timetable was strictly regimented: psychotherapy, neuropsychology, occupational therapy, language therapy and physiotherapy. I regained my speaking skills and used the film making process as a central tool to figure out who I was through images and sounds. Wellcome Trust. (2018). When I didnt respond, she said, Most people cry when I tell them this. The idea was to confront me, in an attempt to get me to improve, but I found it very distressing. You talked about acceptance. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. Filmmaker Lotje Sodderland documents her recovery process from the hemorrhagic stroke she had at 34 and the new life she builds in the aftermath. Q: What kind of negative feelings arose during your recovery, and how did you manage or overcome them? He experiences anoxia resulting in brain damage. I started working with the abilities that I regained and that I retained. I was a fan of his magical, frightening, beautiful aesthetic, his mysterious narrative. "It was amazing, it was all in capital letters with lots of dots," remembers Robinson. But I didn't feel any fear. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, "SXSW Film Review: My Beautiful Broken Brain", "My Beautiful Broken Brain: The amazing collaboration of David Lynch and a woman who 'video-selfied' her stroke", "My Beautiful Broken Brain review - moving study of life after stroke", "At SXSW, a Woman Who Had a Stroke Turns Director", "Netflix Picks Up 'My Beautiful Broken Brain' Documentary from David Lynch", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Beautiful_Broken_Brain&oldid=1098836516, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 17 July 2022, at 18:34. The valuable support provided by her family and friends during this journey of recovery was featured prominently in this documentary. With a black hood pulled up to hide her surgery scar, she haltingly says, Okay, Im alive, then smiles and gives the camera a thumbs-up. This might well be Jason Bourne's last outing, so I hope they send him off in style, Harley Quinn was one of the most popular Halloween costumes this year, despite the holiday falling months before the release of the film she's in. The stroke was an upsetting event in my life, but I could also see it as a great blessing and opportunity to change and simplify my life in a positive way by focusing on what really mattered. I use Siri all the time. Shed been put into an induced coma, endured emergency surgery to her parietal and temporal lobes. CRTEX - BRAIN, CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE REALITY OF THE EGO. .LS: I did. I felt that he would understand my situation. I learned to recognise and forgive the subtleties of my mind, the states of paranoia, fear and anguish, and to tame them. Making a cup of tea was an unfathomable assault course, requiring cognitive skills she couldn't comprehend. The surgeon called it a bleed; some doctors call it a haemorrhagic stroke. In the first three or four months, I was recording everything that was happening through the day, because I was so fascinated by it and because I had problems with short-term memory. A fluorescent green laptop screen would flash single words at me and simultaneously play them into my ears; I would repeat them back. The taxi slid over the speed bumps on the way home; it felt as wild and frightening as a lifeboat on a stormy sea. The National Aphasia Association is 501 (c)(3), Words are more like Cats than Dogs: A Commentary on Aphasia, Affiliate Highlight: Aphasia Group of Middle Tennessee. (2018). Somebody gave me back my iPhone in the hospital, a few days after the stroke, and I quickly re-learned how to use it and started recording myself. While there have been moments of mourning for my old life, my new limitations mean I have been forced to unravel exactly what I was made of. I wrote Hi and my name. A more deep seated confrontation with my mortality manifested itself through panic attacks, but theydidnt really kick in until after I had aseizure -months after my initialstroke. Youre also faced with that dilemma, as a filmmaker, of knowing this is someone who needs to go through recovery. But it also helped me to recover the narrative aspect of my mind and brain -the ability to tell stories, in a visual way. I definitely never thought I would actually send those messages to him, especially early on. Despite my insistence that I couldnt do it, my friend Lucy was convinced she would be able to get me to write again. Five years ago, one of those people. My discharge date arrived in early April, but though Iwas out of hospital, my mind was stuck on my limitations. My real life began 37 years ago when a puritanical Dutch model with a mission to cut a record called Je Cherche Un Homme met the hedonistic music producer responsible for bringing modern civilisation the pop genre known as y-y, and they fell in love. Youve expanded, he said. Large parts of the film consist of material filmed by herself on her iPhone. David Festenstein, who has written a blog about his recovery from a stroke, has suggested that the video and audio recording capabilities on our smartphones can play a vital role in stroke recovery. Lotje reveals her tips on adjusting to acquired communication disorder aphasia and finding a new way of life in her present reality. NEURO SYMPOSIM BEIJING. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. This prompts her to enroll in an experimental therapy that uses Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) a non-invasive methodto stimulate a small part of the brain through magnetically induced electric currents. We never wanted this to be seen as just a film about recovery, because its so much more than that, Robinson adds. This is a touchingpersonal story of learning to live with a new self, makinga newlife plan, and the enormous strength and optimism that it takes to achieve this feat. And it still is. Doctors telling me things that I dont understand. I took meditation and mindfulness classes at a Buddhist centre near my home. He subsequently became an executive producer on the film, "which definitely didn't hurt, having his name on your poster" notes Robinson. Mrs Tan said: Right now, a year on, my language skill is like a primary three student. [6], Lotje began recording video-selfies just a few days after the stroke, while still in the hospital. It left her initially unable to read, write, speak or think coheren. Lotje experiences a new reality, enriched with colour from the right eye and deeper field of vision, she experiences light and sound differently and she comes to accept that reality she has and is still very thankful about life and her journey is inspiring! It was a dreary Sunday in November 2011. Lotje: When an illness like that hits suddenly, it is very difficult for a person to adjust to the new condition as you lose all the elements of who you are job, independence, and even your ability to communicate. Here she meets scientists using technology to repair "broken" brains. They looked at me with sad eyes; I wished I could say something to assuage their sadness. Karen with her husband, Andrew Adams. She was suffering a massive brain haemorrhage due to a rare developmental malformation of the blood vessels in her brain. The comfort of unconsciousness threatened to pull me under, but instead I took my handbag and walked out of the door. 2023 Cond Nast. Filming what was happening to me was fundamental to my recovery. Then one night she woke up with a pounding headache; stumbled out of her apartment, where she lived alone; and came to days later in the hospital. [1][2], David Lynch became an executive producer of the film. Thats a start.. In a post-surgery self-filmed footage, she shares her excitementof not being dead. Im grateful to have learnt so much more about the challenges of being human - so early on. Upon returning home, Mrs Tan, who was once fluent in English, Mandarin, and Teochew, would practise speech and language exercises up to eight hours a day with her husband to regain her communication capabilities. You see what happens in the film. . Six months after the stroke was a difficult time for me. Last year, four years after the stroke, I got married to a wonderful man. He was driving, sitting on my blind periphery, and after a moment spent wishing I was clever and conversational, I glanced over and saw that he expected nothing, that we were entirely comfortable cloaked in silence. Every cast member you would expect will be back to collect their paychecks, which might require a crane, The Finding Nemo sequel will focus on Ellen DeGeneres' forgetful blue tang fish. Can You Rebuild My Brain? I still cant read for more than a few minutes at a time (these words are brought to you courtesy of Siri), but I see more of the world; a world that may not always have left-to-right linear patterns, but is intuited instead through subtle sensory experience. The whole of this film has always been quite serendipitous, and sort of reacting to instinct rather than logic. Apart from the scar under my hair, my face and body were perfectly intact. Contact There was a chance, Iwas told, that I would be cleverer, faster, altogether better, than I had been pre-stroke. The world sounded loud: a passing ambulance; human laughter; a howling fox; birdsong everything passed through me at the same piercing pitch. And then we stayed in touch. She helped me figure out the navigation system on my iPhone, which meant Iwould be able to walk around without getting lost. She collapses in the hotel bathroom and her memories of the evening end there. Sophie Robinson Lotje Sodderland Mere som dette Kommer snart Tonight You're Sleeping with Me Stuck in a passionless marriage, a journalist must choose between her distant but loving husband and a younger ex-boyfriend who has reentered her life. We see her brightenwhen she triumphantly comes up withthe word nephew pointing to a picture of her youngniece. Used to solving problems and travelling the world, she suddenly couldnt understand how to get out of her flat to ask for help. I think it was the day after Lotje came out of hospital that we met. There were the dulcet tones of Capital Gold radio mixed with the perpetual bleeps of heart monitors. Still unable to speak coherently, Sodderland wanted to get in touch with Sophie Robinson, a documentary film-maker she had met once through work, but had forgotten her name and had no way of articulating who she was. At first, my writing looked like a childs. Now, after the success of My Beautiful Broken Brain, they see the value of story-telling for brain-injured people. And in the aftermath, she was transformed. Platoon director Oliver Stone takes on a very important and timely story. Colours were brighter, sounds louder and emotions more raw. Filmmaker Lotje Sodderland documents her recovery process from the hemorrhagic stroke she had at 34 and the new life she builds in the aftermath. Starring: Sophie Robinson, Lotje Sodderland Watch all you want. ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL. I went to see some fireworks with friends in the evening, followed by a trip to the pub, and returned to my flat at around 10pm. I had so many questions, such as: why had this happened? I had the camera with me, and there and then we said, Should we just try to do a bit of filming now and see what it feels like for both of us? Videos Living on her own, she lays in bed for a while waiting for it to happen but something nudges her to get up and seek help. Romance is a complex neurological process, and Ididnt think Iwas eligible any more. JOIN NOW Executive producer David Lynch played a pivotal role in Lotje Sodderland's recovery, as explained in this documentary. Its very different. My brother describes the old me as extremely dynamic, extremely social, very impassioned. Shed had a brain hemorrhage, the result she would eventually find out, of a vascular abnormality that developed before birth. Before my stroke, Isaw him, his wife and daughters most weeks. During that first strange, solitary fortnight, I had an idea myfirst linear thought. They realised that the recovery process can feel monotonous without some spontaneity. Thisheartfelt documentary is an honest portrayal of the process of re-learning to live with a broken brain, ofhuman fragility and vulnerability, of persisting in the difficult journey of recovery through series of setbacks and bad news, of dealing with uncertainty of whether things will ever get better orwhether, instead, they will get worse, of realizing that there are many questions that have no definitive answers or clear explanations. She turns to the camera and says: Anything can happen, at any time, to any degree. Our relationship professionally really developed once Id had the stroke. EMMY AWARDS. She became very quiet and withdrawn, while my brother went into saviour mode and wanted to do many things but yet, did not know how. Lotje Sodderland. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. First of all, something terrible has happened. He started explaining that Lotje had started filming herself and would I come and meet her? She woke up in hospital two days later, and once she had her belongings returned to her, found herself reaching for her iPhone and once someone had shown her how to use it again pressing record, Although initially Sodderland was using her phone videos to help her remember all the meetings with doctors, she realised that she also wanted to document what was happening to her. Iasked a friend if he thought I was a changed woman. Another change is that Ican access the creative part of my brain more easily. I signed a pile of disclaimers and followed a delightfully deadpan neurologist, Dr Leff, into what looked like an interstellar teleportation device. This was always a possibility due to her stroke, it turns out, with or without the experimental therapy, althoughthe TMS may have contributed. When I woke up, I knew who he and my mother were but I couldnt be sure the familiar stranger inhabiting my body was me. I was conscious, but there was nothing there: no thought, no logic, no reason. I am very fortunate that my friends and family are very loving and supportive. A sketch of the monsters she saw in visions and dreams. But from that first interview she did on camera, my hairs stood up on my neck.". Mr Tan shared: We started going for Chit Chat Cafe in May and got connected with more people for extra support It was fortunate as around this time, I got into a road accident and broke three bones in my foot. But I think its fantastic. "I just thought he'd understand," she says. "I remember it just felt like I was on the moon and looking down on everything," she tells me by phone, having just landed back in London after showing the film at SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. And had I actually gone mad? There's also thought to be a very meta all-male version in the works from the creators of Jump Street, set in the same universe as Men In Black no less, If you thought Abrams' Star Trek films were bad, feast your eyes on the trailer for the next one from the director of the Fast & Furious franchise. He has this connection with deconstructed language. The title character is an obnoxious but successful Manhattan attorney whose life changes when he is shot at a convenience store late one night. They had set themselves a goal: by Christmas, they would have taught me to write a shopping list, and to read Simpkin, by Quentin Blake, my three-year-old niece Matildas favourite book. La La Land will certainly be different, a musical comedy-drama about a young pianist and an actor played by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone respectively, This is something of a question mark. But Lotje survives. Knowing that was not the answer, Mr Tan insisted for more tests and scans which subsequently revealed a dilated pupil and a blood clot in her brain, indicating signs of a stroke. Access unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial. Later on, I learned the stroke was caused by a rare development of malformed blood vessels in my brain. When you were filming yourself on your phone, did you think of that footage as something you might eventually make use of?LS: No. Do you remember Lotje? 2 months after her strokeshe enrolls in a 3-month long program ina neurological rehabilitation center for people with brain injurieswhere she undergoes psychological and linguistic treatment. Videos I wanted to drink coffee again, andI wanted to get the coffee myself. But it was decided that this experiment could no longer be run on people who had suffered a stroke within the past year. But at the end of the program, she still cant read. My brother and mother loomed down at me, and a funereal line of friends came to the ward. Can you put your hands on your shoulders? I didnt know what shoulders were. I was really moved. At age 34, film director Lotje Sodderland was struck by an intracerebral haemorrhagic stroke after a night out with her friends. Aphasia SG is a not-for-profit organisation supporting persons with aphasia and their caregivers. But I felt like I was in the world he created in his films. When he dropped me off at the station I said: Ithink were going to fall in love, and he said: Ithink so, too.. I had regressed. Lotje Sodderlands long journey to a happy life with what she calls her new brain began early on a November morning in 2011. A house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence. Now the resulting documentary produced by David Lynch is coming to Netflix, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Thank you so much for joining us. But when I looked back, the words had slid off the page. March 22, 2016. I'm not able to work to the same level, and multi-task,as I did before. I didnt sleep for days. Lotjeis a fighter and she has the good fortune to have access to therapy. This together with various sequences showing the world from her point-of-view at that time, including for example visual misperceptions (hallucinations), produce a rather personal storytelling style.[3][4][5]. 2016 will see a ninth X-Men film. At the same time, having tamed my hyper-sensitive receptors through daily meditation, wouldnt it be just like the old me to risk it all in the name of adventure? She has a new partner, a new job as a film-maker and cinematographer and is excited for the future. When we came for the activities, my wife had to wheel me in, and people thought I was the patient.. But this is a good opportunity to figure out who your real friends are and let them go. ", In 2011, Soderland, then 34 and working as a documentary producer, woke up in the early hours of the morning in her flat in east London with an excruciating headache. At one stage before the film was called My Beautiful Broken Brain, it was called Life Interrupted. He shared: Im thankful for my friends for stepping in even my friend in Iran offered positive messages to my wife. Lotje improves, she can now speak fairly fluently. Expect major face-palming from Trekkies in July. Two weeks after the stroke, I nearly burned the ward to a cinder when the hospital ran a standard independent living test on me (the making of tea and toast). Lotje Sodderland explores beauty and positivity after a traumatic health scare At age 34, film director Lotje Sodderland was struck by an intracerebral haemorrhagic stroke after a night out with her friends. The initial goal of 30,000 was exceeded by 7340. Brechas Urbanas Sao Paolo. I didnt knowhow to rest and allow my thoughts to subside. I spent a long time constructing a message, and recording what I felt. Though the film showed mostly positive scenes, there were many difficult moments that were not captured, such as my mental health struggles which are an invisible part of recovery. She has now recovered, but requires dozens of daily iPhone reminders to compensate for her unreliable short-term memory. In celebration of Aphasia Awareness Month this June, we caught up with the Lotje after the free screening of her documentary and had an intimate conversation with her to find out about her post-recovery struggles and how she overcame them. It was very painful for my ears. 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