Neil Slade – Mirror

Neil Slade – Mirror

An Amazing Brain Adventure is a THREE PART feature film- part documentary, fable, music, and fun.

It illustrates things about the human brain, you will not see anywhere else.

The main feature, Mirror, is about a very special girl who FIXES things and CREATES things with her Ah-Mig Doll-Ah.

This is a REALLY unique film, nothing else quite like it out there, both in terms of presentation, story, technical and artistic expression.

Starring

Emily Choi Fred Poindexter Rachel Mor Erfie and Chloe

WIth Bobby Reginelli and Amelia Anziano

Written, Directed, and Cinematography by Neil Slade

Music by Neil Slade and

Fred Poindexter

NEW STILL PHOTOS FROM THE FILM

“Neil– The other day we got our Extra Super Duper Brain book and
music set in the mail, along with your new movie–

HOW DO YOU DO ALL THIS???

This is incredible– we had a few friends over (my wife, my kids, my
friends and their kids) and while barbecuing we opened up the box and
started playing the CD Brain music at random- what a blast! Something
for everyone- then we read the liner notes and everybody was amazed all
these different kinds of albums were made by you (and your other
musicians). the kids especially liked the amaygdala Brainbites album. But
the grownups liked the guitar album I think the best.

So, just for the heck of it, after eating we all went into the den and put
on the movie just to catch a glimpse of what it might be……

We didn’t move even to go to the bathroom for the entire film.

It was so cool that everybody could sit and watch something together,
and really get off on it and talk about what was going on, and laugh, and
you should have seen the kids eyes during the cooking and the party
scene near the end!! (I won’t give it away here…) It totally caught us by
surprise. And of course we all had our opinions of what it all meant–
amazing. Congratulations on a very unique and well done story.”

“Reality is a reflection…”

Mirror is a very special girl who seemingly and unexplainably fixes things and creates things from nothing and from useless junk and trash. She wears a mysterious pendant around her neck, her Ah-Mig Doll-Ah, named after the actual little master click switch in the human brain, the amygdala. This switch turns on either primitive reptilian reactive non-thinking fight or flight core brain behaviors or allows advanced creative-cooperative frontal lobes processes to occur. And in Mirror’s case, perhaps quite a bit more…

This all-ages movie comes from an original story written over twenty years ago, long before the fad of kids doing magic became a pop phenomenon.

The Mirror (60 minutes) movie is the main part of the DVD- but the shorter bonus features also touch upon the story in one way or another, and clue you in to deeper secrets in the film. The Original Mirror Story (45 minutes) is a DVD audio book story goes into great details about Mirror’s past and alternative history. Fun with Fred (20 minutes) is a humorous look into brain and behavior potential and the director’s personal history leading up to this film. And, The Erfie and The Chloe Show (5 minute short) -well, dogs and music, goofy stuff- all frontal lobes material the brain loves.

Additionally, the film itself has three alternative (2.5 hours) director commentaries on Audio Tracks #2 and #4 that took at great depth into the story behind the story, potential interpretations of the film, and some technical notes. An additional compressed ‘Steady Volume” full audio track is supplied as audio track 3 for noisy environments and portable players. This is a PROGRESSIVE, full 24 frame per second DVD (like projected film), if your player allows this special setting. There is nearly FIVE HOURS hours of total content on the DVD to explore over and over.

Mirror is a stimulating puzzle and a riddle for your frontal lobes. This story runs very deep, and it is a highly VISUAL adventure. Most of the human brain involves non-verbal processes so WATCH carefully. Every scene has lots in it, blink and you’ll miss something. Figure out what it reflects for you. That will be the biggest reward; when you took into the MIRROR of your own mind and brain for meaning and relevance. Watch the film without the commentary, then view again and listen to the commentary audio tracks- you’ll be amazed at what you discover you may have missed.