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Friday, August 10, 2007
Patrick O'Brien's ALS documentary and fundraiser
Last year, I posted about underground filmmaker Patrick O'Brien who is suffering from a terminal disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, AKA Lou Gehrig's Disease. With just a few years to live, Patrick is making a documentary about his experiences. Sales of the "beer in a feeding tube" poster seen below go to support the film and ALS research. And this Monday, August 13, the Patrick O'Brien Foundation is holding a fundraiser and party celebrating the release of "Everything Will Be Okay or How I Learned to Transcend Form, Live in the Now, and Make Love in my Electric Wheelchair," a DVD of excerpts from the feature length documentary he's still shooting. You can also buy the DVD online.
From the description:
Underground Filmmaker Patrick Sean O'Brien was looking for a story about the disabled, until a disability found him. O'Brien, seen by millions worldwide on TV and the internet, is known for his darkly humorous, controversial and sometimes disturbing films, animations and photographs. Now, for the first time on DVD, follow "The Notorious POB" on an odyssey from the short films that brought him so much notoriety, to the humbling search for truth in excerpts from his first feature length film.Link (Thanks, Jemma Hostetler!)
Previously on BB:
• Beer in a feeding tube poster Link
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