ADHD and Sensory Stimulation

ADHD has a very close relationship to hyper focus activities such as playing musical instrument, or risk taking activities such as extreme sports. It also has a relationship with desire for physical interaction, and constant stimulations such as procrastinating and working under deadline. This is all fascinating for me and closely related to the type of art I'm looking at.

ADHD Improves With Sensory Intervention
ADHD and Sensory Stimulation
"Many children with ADHD also suffer from sensory processing disorder, a neurological underpinning that contributes to their ability to pay attention or focus," explained Koenig. "They either withdraw from or seek out sensory stimulation like movement, sound, light and touch."

Perhaps the reason why nature calm down mind of an ADHD person is becuse it's highly sensory visually, auditory, etc. ADHD's love gardening and cooking as well, both of which engage senses.

This film stayed( and still ha) in my mind for a long time. what fascinate me is how it portrait senses. The angel want to expereince what human being experience though senses. I'm interested in how he goes into people mind, experience them,  and hear them.

Same apply to The diving bell and the butterfly where the main character misses his adventure life due to accident and he start a journey through his imagination. We experience inability of the character as we are watching from eye of this character. We lose health and start to realise its value. Through his eyes we experience a frustrated desire to move, to talk, to express, and to enjoy. the director, Julian Schnabel, is in fact a painter and he has improvised on the spot whilst making the film. I think that's why the film is very inventive and fluid.

'Life and nothing more' by Kiarostami is also direct the viewer symbolically to celebrate being live. Although Kiarostami has a more philosophical attitude towards life, very much influenced by Khayam poetry and also Eastern Buddhist traditions (at least in his early films). He often losses aesthetic and visual details in favour of concept. His films repeat theme of life and death and the contrast between the two which suggest subtly to celebrate life and the moment. But it demand's audience patience as it doesn't offer much visual aesthetic pleasure, accomplished cinematography, or professional actors. He also like Julian Schnabel comes from fine art background, and he question cinema and approach it through symbols.  His film as well as his thoughts behind them affect me intellectually but simplicity goes too far. I think I'm drawn to irrational/fictional quality or dramatic cinematography which is often missed from his works.