Alexander Luria - in Cinema

In Cinema

  • Chris Doyle's auteur film Away with words is largely inspired by Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist.
  • Jacqueline Goss's 28 minute feature How to Fix the World (2004) is a digitally-animated video that "draws from Luria's study of how the introduction of literacy affected the thought-patterns of Central Asian peasants." - description taken from the cover of the DVD Wendy and Lucy (2008), OSC-004, which includes it. Educational resource.

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