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This is a 2 minute trailer for "Breaking Boundaries; the Art of Alex Masket", an 18 minute documentary film making the film festival circuit in 2010. Become a fan on Facebook, and follow its journey.

"Breaking Boundaries; the Art of Alex Masket" chronicles the story of Alex Masket, a unique and extraordinary artist who has created a deep and varied body of work despite a disability that inhibits what most might consider being normal human interaction. Alex is a young adult with severe autism. He is functionally non verbal, and makes what we in the verbal world call art. Is he expressing himself? Is this his language, and is it our disability if we can't understand it?

Containing interviews with art experts and a community of supporters, "Breaking Boundaries" documents the kinetic energy and wholly individualistic style of a young artist, and brings into sharp focus the notion of what artistic communication and the creative impulse is all about.

Filming began in the Summer of 2008 and ended during the Fall of 2009, a period of tremendous output for this young artist. The music was composed and arranged for the film by jazz musician Diane Moser and performed by the Diane Moser Quintet.

This is Director/Producer Dennis Connors’ first film.
  • john dunstan plus 11 months ago
    this looks fascinating, Mike peters sent me the link, i hope to see this in the area sometime soon
  • Lorene Amet plus 11 months ago
    Thanks for sharing information about this wonderful documentary.
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  • Lorene Amet plus 11 months ago
    Would love to see this documentary too- any chance to have it shown in the UK?
  • Dennis Connors plus 3 months ago
    It's now available online!
    vimeo.com/13806744
    cheers, dc
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  • Dennis Connors plus 11 months ago
    screening this weekend in Montreal at FIFA, the International Festival of Films on Art, then the following weekend (Sunday, I think) at Garden State Film Fest in Asbury Park. Would love to screen in UK, but that didn't happen in the film's festival run, which is now coming to a close (got other projects brewing).
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