True/False Films
Life. Support. Music.
Sunday, Mar. 2 / 1:00PM / Windsor Cinema
In person: director Eric Daniel Metzgar and subjects Jason, Marjorie and Lynn Crigler.
Work in progress. Fast on his way to becoming a rock star, Jason Crigler's life as he knew it suddenly ended on stage on August 4, 2004. The singer-songwriter, who had performed with Linda Thompson, John Cale and Marshall Crenshaw, suffered a freak neurological incident that left him unable to care for himself or for his pregnant wife. Exploring similar terrain to Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Eric Daniel Metzger follows up his True/False favorite Chances of the World Changing with another exquisitely filmed story of determination and destiny. Metzger uses shatteringly intimate footage of the Crigler family, who never give up hope even during the darkest moments, and of Jason before and after the incident. By film's end, he has painted a poetic portrait that reveals the power of love, the indomitability of the human spirit and the undeniable healing properties of music. (JS)