ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
From Traumatic Brain Injury to triumphant recovery, Lizzy's experiences lead her into a deep exploration of Flow State, merging personal resilience with scientific revelations.

SYNOPSIS
UNTITLED FLOW STATE PROJECT follows director Lizzy Fowler as she collaborates with neuroscientists, psychologists, flow masters, and everyday people to better understand the properties of flow. Flow state helps humans unlock mental and physical capacities that far exceed the typical day-to-day. So what’s happening to our brains in flow? Can flow help us to heal, create, or transcend? And what does it mean for Lizzy, who is recovering from a serious brain injury. She has regained her hearing, her sight, and her mental acuity, but still cannot taste, smell, or recall a single memory from before her accident. The experience was devastating, but she credits her remarkable recovery to harnessing flow state.

Joining forces with neuroscientists from Oxford and St. Andrews, Lizzy adopts groundbreaking sensor technology to find flow in real life—it has only been studied in the lab to this point. This journey of discovery brings her from a monastery, to a Croatian reef, to backcountry skiing. She collaborates with a blind jazz musician, zouk dancers, a rock climber, and a birthing mother during her labor. As Lizzy builds an unprecedented data set on flow state, she also listens deeply to the experiences of these flow masters, grappling with her own trauma and healing journey along the way.

With the help of Oxford scientists, Lizzy will begin to understand what she has uncovered within the sensor data, but the data is only half the story. Through befriending her fellow subjects, she begins to integrate her fractured experience of returning to consciousness, re-meeting her family, and building a new life. This story is equal parts personal and global, science-driven and somatic, analysis and adventure. It unites a wide array of researchers and practitioners to advance the conversation about one of the most powerful aspects of the human mind.

PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature

DIRECTOR Lizzy Fowler
SCREENWRITER Vickie Curtis
PRODUCER Vickie Curtis
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Brian Radford, Doug Robinson
Director of Photography Pete Alton

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