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Lillian Greenberg

Depersonalized and Derealized

I have attempted to create a digital representation of what it is like to live with my disorder, DPDR. It is a dissociative disorder that often causes the world around me to appear flat and prerecorded. It's a very lonely and alienating feeling to be so disconnected.
In this piece, I have sourced footage from YouTube to represent my experiences. A few of the videos were created by Brian David Gilbert, who I feel creates incredible works of art through this medium. In particular, the clips of him finding a tattered version of himself while hiking through the woods lends nicely to my vision. Additionally, the POV videos I appropriated help to demonstrate the 2-dimensional feeling of being in this state of mind. 
The audio clips I have chosen to work with come from a few sources. In the background, I have placed an ambient sound that feels unnerving and grainy. Played over that are reordered clips from a conversation in the movie Lost in Translation. Along with this, I have added a few clips I recorded of my friend reading a poem about what it is like to live with DPDR. 

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