Demi Vera follows the lives of four NYC Artist dealing with professional and self-diagnosed mental health diseases. The documentary explores personal accounts and inspirational advice for viewers dealing with similar feelings and diagnoses.
In a series of shorts Demi is invited into intimate spaces with people and ask’s each participant to tell her story. The correlating images are Demi’s visuals of the person, what forms is a habitual collaboration between two people, one the speaker and one the listener. What can we gain from our interactions with the world, what does our interpretation of the other mean, and how can we use this to better understand ourselves and the other.