Wisdom Gone Wild
“Wisdom Gone Wild” enters the world of a person living with dementia through listening, art, and music, reflecting on the reliability of memory and the desire to reinvent one’s own life when it fails us.
Rea Tajiri
Rea Tajiri Rea Tajiri is an award-winning documentary Director/Producer and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film and Video. Tajiri’s work situates itself in poetic, non-traditional storytelling forms to encourage dialog and reflection around buried histories. Tajiri has directed three documentary features including WISDOM GONE WILD (2022) which had a national broadcast on the PBS docu series POV, Season 36; screened at the DOC NYC Film Festival and in International Competition at IDFA. To date, the film has won seven awards including the Audience Award at Blackstar for Best Documentary and Honorable Mention for Best Documentary Feature; it also won the Grand Prix at the San Diego Asian American Film Festival in 2022.
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