The Terry Fragments portrays Terry, a blind painter, from his everyday perspective, rather than imposing formulaic, emotion-laden plots onto his life. As the narrative does not revolve around his disability, his visual impairment is neither foregrounded, nor pushed into the background. The result is a multi-layered character portrait that shifts stereotypical notions of the disabled “other” towards the phenomenological “alter”.

Dr. Catalin Brylla is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of West London. His research aims for a pragmatic understanding of documentary spectatorship with regards to social cognition, stereotypes, embodied experience and representation. He has published “Documentary and Disability” (Palgrave, 2017) with Helen Hughes and “Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film” (Palgrave, 2018) with Mette Kramer. See www.catalinbrylla.com for his research areas and outputs.