An award-winning, PBS film made out of 30,000 hand painted stills.

See Memory is an exploration of the power of memory in our lives and how traumatic memories can prevent us from living fully in the present and envisioning our futures. The film offers a roadmap for changing our relationship to memory and regaining hope and agency. See Memory is made out of 30,000 hand painted stills that accompanies narration from interviews with leading neuroscientists and psychiatrists. The film gives voice to the experience of deciphering fragmented memories through a unifying lens of art and science.

Synopsis: A lonely young woman moving hesitantly through the liminal space between past and present. A therapist bears witness to her trauma and the girl is transformed - she does not have to live with those memories alone anymore. No longer stuck between past and present, she strides hopefully towards a future of her own making.

The Science Behind See Memory follows the original film with new insights from the experts whose work inspired See Memory. Viewers are invited into Silvera’s studio to learn about her creative process, groundbreaking discoveries in memory research, and how science shines a light on the dark corners of our minds. The Science Behind See Memory features ambitious new work from Silvera, who was inspired to paint over 10,000 new stills that help visualize new revelations about how our brains process traumatic memory. Equal parts behind-the-scenes and an update to the original film, The Science Behind See Memory celebrates the inextricable bond between art and science and the importance of having them inform one another.