Laying on of Hands
dir. Nicholas Twemlow
University of Iowa, USA
Synopsis:
Composed of found footage and home movies, The Laying on of Hands documents the filmmaker’s reckoning, as he searches for his lost mother, of his childhood immersion in the martial arts and subsequent mastery of the death touch with his discovery as an adult of the power of the healing touch.
Director:
Nick Twemlow’s first short film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a former Fulbright Fellow to New Zealand, and co-edits Canarium Books. His writing has appeared in Filmmaker, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, A Public Space, Fence, and elsewhere. He is an MFA student in the Film & Video program at the University of Iowa.
**Appeared at Tribeca Film Festival