A video art piece I created for Pint of Science 2016 festival.
Inspired by Richard Bethlehem's PhD research into autism, empathy, and oxytocin. He is studying the effects of oxytocin administration on resting state and task-related neural activation in the typical and autistic brain, in a study funded by the Autism Research Trust. http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/people_bethlehem
The images of pain are the actual photographs shown to participants in the study, while their brains are scanned in an MRI scanner. The participants are given oxytocin or a placebo to see whether feelings of empathy are affected. They are asked to believe firstly that the hand or foot is their own, then that they are someone else's.
The title refers to the montage sequence in The Parallax View.
Music "Dark Glass" by Jim Meacock http://pop-upmusic.com/jim-meacock-bio/