View filmThe Making of 'The Lost World'
1997 Film


A quiet portrait of misunderstanding, undiagnosed autism, and the island that shaped him.
A fragmented documentary portrait of Sammy, an adult with undiagnosed autism growing up in Jersey. Through cut-up interviews, island landscapes and black-and-white experimental sequences, PooBrain explores family, stigma, illness, friendship and the quiet ache of being misunderstood.
Directed by Jude Bolt
Selected stills from the film



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