The Body Is a House of Familiar Rooms

2021 • Directed by

Lauryn Welch

Documentary

Sam Geiger suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a painful illness of the connective tissues. The intrusion of this chronic illness into every aspect of his and his partner's life is explored with whimsical beauty in this gorgeously animated hybrid documentary about love, pain and the private worlds one can conjure with paint and imagination.