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Telling it like it is

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Producer(s)	Sabine Kertscher, Amy Brown (Consultant)
Director(s)	Sabine Kertscher
Release Date	1999
Work In Progress	n
Runtime	rough cut min
Youth Media	n

Film Description

Bill Utermohlen’s 24 late self portraits prove that Alzheimer patients are aware of their condition: through his paintings he is ‘Telling it like it is,’ in what doctors agree to be a “unique journal of a human experience.” The “unawareness of, or failure to acknowledge ones (…) disability” can’t be considered a symptom for Alzheimer anymore.

Bill, who has been a struggling artist all his life, finds himself on TV shows, an exhibition of his late work has toured the World since 2001. Not only did Bill’s painting style evolve and transform, he is for the first time in his life, the ‘bread winner’.

Pat, his energetic, voluble wife of 40 years on her journey, facing challenges and changes in the time surrounding Bill’s death in what will be a crucial year in her life. As she re-defines her role, re-thinks her marriage and tries to make sense of it all, it becomes her new quest to fight for Bill’s artistic recognition and for the first time, the art historian is talking about his work publicly.

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Last Updated On:	May 22, 2012