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Natural Disorder
Start date: Jul 10, 2014, End date: Jan 9, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

In a film fusing documentary, science and art, we introduce to you one of the bravest, funniest, most stubborn, and absolutely unbelievably mind blowing real life characters you will ever meet on TV: Spastic entertainer Jacob Nossell. With an intact intellect in a weakened body Jacob is the personification of normality’s dilemma and of one of man’s unremitting universal questions: What is normality? Who is normal? Am I normal? Recent advantages in medical sciences are closing in on the creation of a genetically perfect human existence, making these questions more pertinent than ever before. An unborn human being can be screened and influenced in many ways. Sperm banks offer to determine the sex, eye color and blood type of your dream child. Nuchal scans and genetic tests allow us to reject defects before it is too late. But what if you are genetic imperfection? 24-year-old Jacob Nossell is a top-of-his-class student, funny and perfectly unpredictable but with a crippled body and a speech impediment he does not fit the idea of a perfect life. Having experienced the impact of theatre when staring in Mads Brügger’s award winning documentary “The Red Chapel” Jacob decides to stage a play at the Royal Danish Theatre, putting matters straight once and for all: He will do away with normality as defined by the majority. He will make his story known, look into the future and move hearts and minds. Along with top scientists, philosophers and “Borgen” actor Pilou Asbæk Jacob takes us on a personal and scientific tour-de-force examining, testing and challenging modern society’s concept of normality. The film follows Jacob’s journey towards the premiere, witnessing his obstacles, inner musings and his most personal thoughts, and includes an independent cinematic layer reflecting on future scenarios concerning normality. It will be a "fable of consequences" spiraling from the fact that it is scientifically possible today to design the people of tomorrow.

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