Migraine and Visual Arts
| Author: Klaus Podoll | 13. March 2005 |
| Edited by: Klaus Podoll |
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky Online
Darren Aronofsky, Pi, 1997 (see here)
"When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so once when I was six I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified. Alone in that darkness. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages. And I could see. But something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache."
(From Darren Aronofsky, Pi, 1997)
Interview conducted by Ruby Rich from Inview.Kqed.Org concerning Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem For A Dream" and "Pi".
B. Ruby Rich (Ruby): I think you really put people into the space of, well, of somebody with a migraine headache. You know, how do you get there? Do you get migraines?
Darren Aronofsky (DA): No, a friend of mine who was a really talented actress, her career was basically devastated by her migraines, and I never realized they were so debilitating and I started talking to her and she, I started seeing artwork that came from, that migraine sufferers drew of their migraine attacks and it was exactly the type of things we were talking about, like the hand of god reaching down and pulling out a chunk of brain.
(Darren Aronofsky Online, October 12, 2004)
"Yes, Pi was The Movie For The Rest Of Us Migraine Sufferers. I love b&w cinema."
(Theoni, Newsgroups: at.support.srs, November 24, 2001)
"That movie is so accurate in its depiction of migraines that watching it GAVE me a migraine!!! I love that movie!"
(Catherine Yronwode, Newsgroups: alt.magick, November 13, 2002)
"Yeah, there's a sort of masochistic quality to watching Pi if you have a history of migraines, isn't there. All the traits are there - including eyeing the power tools as potential therapeutic devices! The soundtrack has some of the best 'nerve' music around too."
(Paul Hume, Newsgroups: alt.magick, November 14, 2002)
"I suggest that for a good visual glimpse of what one common type of migraine aura looks like (the scintillating scotoma type), you should rent the movie 'Pi.' It was a sort of cult movie back in the 1990s and should be available. It was widely discussed in this newsgroup because the flashing lights in the film served as a form of induction to the migraining process in susceptible people and simply viewing it gave a lot of us migraines with aura. It became kind of a joke how much we wanted to see it because it was about migraines -- and how horrible the effects of seeing it were for many of us. I got a three-day migraine after viewing it. You will probably be unaffected, and you may learn something from it."
(Catherine Yronwode, Newsgroups: alt.support.headaches.migraine, Subject: What form do auras take?, June 25, 2005)
"Max Cohen, the main character of π, obviously undergoes several mystical experiences through the course of the film. It could be argued that Max had his first mystical experience when he was six years old, when he stared into the sun against the advice of his mother. During this experience, Max stared into the bright light of the sun and had a moment of intense focus, of understanding. He then became temporarily blinded, engulfed in darkness. Finally, he could see light again - his vision was restored. However, as Max states, 'Something had changed inside me.' That day, he suffered his first migraine."
(Jodie A. Daquilanea, π: Aronofsky's Film and Its Signs of Mysticism, May 23, 2003)
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