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Patients can experience a profound sense of loss, depression and self-consciousness about how they look. I can’t share much of the film ahead of its screening, so here are a few stills and photos from the day. I try to do my best. Most patients can see with their remaining eye and will most likely be able to do all the things they used to do before, even drive a car.
It is now possible to produce artificial eyes digitally, but Hardin says they don’t have the depth of hand-painted prosthetics.
“It’s not an ego trip. . My goal is for you not to notice my work.”
Hardin’s work underscores two important points.
First, even if you lose an eye, it’s possible to live a normal life.
With modern eye prosthesis, the loss of the eye is hardly noticeable, as you can see in our enucleation after-image gallery.
Second, a human touch is vital when interacting with people facing adversity such as the loss of an eye, or a diagnosis of eye cancer. Darrell Hardin has just the prescription – compassion, humor and beautiful artificial eyes.
Hardin is an ocularist in Willoughby, Ohio.
His wife Cindy was born with glaucoma and had an eye removed in her 30s.
“If my wife had both eyes, she probably wouldn’t be with me.” He laughs and then turns more serious. He combines technical skill with a sense of artistry to make eyes for patients who have lost them due to disease or injury. It’s the first short film I’ve written and produced and I’m so grateful to have done it with such a supportive group of cast, crew and friends.
Director - Marie Andrée Lemaire Writer and Producer - Katy Swainston Director of Photography - Jose Armengol Editor - Bettina Zironi Sound Designer and Recordist - Renan Chaves Standby Art Director - James Donavan Edwin - Hugo Hamlet Cyril - Tim Larkfield Mary - Marcela McCalley Star - Iola Jha-Devichand Teacher - Lucy Mepsted Joseph - Pearl Toogood 1st Assistant Director - Citlalli Danae Islas de Leon Script Supervisor - Tianhao Xu 1st Assistant Camera - Nick Brown 2nd Assistant Camera - Ralph Sansum Make up - Megan Hunter - Powell Graphic Design - Alex Plant Runners - Christopher Briggs, Ruth Cowley Poster Design - Juliette Donavan Colourist - Jose Armengol Supporting Artists - Adam Toogood, Anna Karklina, Chris Scillitoe, Christina Sanchez Graham, Daniel Hall, Tax Toogood, Emma Davies, Emogen Webster, Freya Webster, Jamie Lamb, Juan Ramon Sanchez Velar, Juliette Donavan, Liv Willow Hall, Mia Alexandra Hall, Michael Lamb, Michelle Tolmia, Paul Webster, Ruth Atkins, Samta Scillitoe, Sophie Lamb, Sylvie Toogood Music - Winter written by Antonio Vivaldi, published by Notepad Music PRS Special thanks to - Darrell Primary and Nursery School, Joe Porter, Priscila McCalley, Barbara van Shaik, Charles Pederson, Macho Guzman, Preeti Jha, Tuesday Toogood, Cineark LTD, James Metcalfe, Gabriella Sinella Key Partner Sponsors 2023 - BBC, Channel 4, Film Distributors' Association Ltd., ITV, Sky, UK Cinema Association Key Partner Funders - British Film Institute (BFI), awarding funds from The National Lottery; Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Office for Students Patrons 2023 - The Bertha Foundation, Dana and Albert R.
Broccoli Foundation; David Elstein; The David Lean Foundation; Duncan Kenworthy, Toledo Productions Ltd; Ingenious; The Leverhulme Trust; The Lew Grade Memorial Fund; Panalux; Richard Dunn Memorial Fund; The UIP Charitable Trust; Virgin Atlantic; Warburg Pincus; YouTube BBC Studios; The National Lottery; BFI; National Film & Television School
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Compassion, Humor and Artificial Eyes Smooth the Road to Recovery
Dealing with the loss of an eye can make patients feel conspicuous and awkward.
He paints each eye by hand, creating a prosthetic that is hardly noticeable to the average passerby. But he does much more for those who walk into his office, as a recent story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer describes
“Hardin’s irreverent, sometimes corny, sense of humor serves to put patients at ease, and to let them know that it is OK, healing, even, to laugh at the circumstances that caused them to seek his services.”
As the saying goes, sometimes laughter is the best medicine.
Losing an eye is traumatic.
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Katy Swainston
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I'd like to highlight the people who gave their time and talent in making the short film Applause.
He offers hope for a sense of normalcy for his patients by creating realistic artificial eyes. At the New York Eye Center, we call this “patient-centered care,” and it’s the foundation of everything we do.
Photo Credit: Wellcome Library, London. . I thought, ‘Oh, I’m gonna die.’ But my 87-year-old aunt says ‘God doesn’t want a weed in his garden, and the Devil doesn’t want competition.’”
Hardin can also intimately empathize with patients who have lost an eye.
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Hardin’s demeanor helps lift the gloom.He has a particular empathy for cancer patients. He battled the disease himself.
“Hodgkins in the ’70’s,” he told the Plain Dealer. “I finally found a person who understands what I do, and why.”
Hardin calls his work his passion.
“I know .