Support Films That Reimagine Trauma Through Art
See Memory — Now on PBS
See Memory is a hand-painted film that transforms the science of memory and trauma into an emotional landscape. Built from 30,000 paintings, the film explores how memory is formed, carried, and sometimes reshaped — not as a fixed recording, but as something living, embodied, and in motion.
Recognized with a Telly Award for 2D Animation and now available through PBS, See Memory is reaching audiences across the country. Its deepest impact, however, happens when the film enters hospitals, therapy practices, universities, classrooms, and community spaces — where patients, providers, students, educators, and clinicians use it as a tool for reflection, learning, and dialogue.
Your support helps extend the life and reach of the film. Donations support educational outreach, screenings, clinical and classroom materials, discussion guides, public programs, and access initiatives that bring See Memory into spaces where conversations about trauma, memory, care, and resilience are most urgently needed.
Why This Work Matters
Most trauma films focus on what happened. See Memory asks how experience lives inside us — and how memory can be revisited through art, science, imagination, and human connection.
Art as Language
Trauma is not only explained; it is painted into motion, allowing audiences to feel the inner experience of memory in a new way.
Science Made Emotional
The film brings neuroscience into conversation with painting, storytelling, and lived experience, making complex ideas about memory more accessible, human, and felt.
Dialogue as Impact
From PBS audiences to medical humanities programs, hospital settings, therapy communities, and university classrooms, See Memory is not only a film. It is a catalyst for reflection, teaching, and conversation.
What Your Gift Supports
Your contribution helps fund:
- Educational and clinical outreach
- Screenings, talks, and community programs
- Classroom, clinical, and discussion materials
- Access for hospitals, universities, treatment centers, and underserved communities
- Continued distribution and impact work for See Memory
- Development of future film and art projects exploring memory, trauma, family, illness, and care
The Next Body of Work
Viviane Silvera is continuing to develop new film and visual projects that build on the questions at the heart of See Memory: How do we carry the past? How do images shape what we remember? And how can art help us revisit trauma without being defined by it?
These new works extend the conversation into family memory, inherited trauma, caregiving, loss, illness, and the ways people reconstruct their stories over time.
Your support helps make this next phase possible.
Make an Impact Today
Every gift helps See Memory reach new hospitals, clinics, classrooms, treatment centers, and communities — and supports the creation of future work that uses art to open new ways of understanding trauma, memory, and healing.
See Memory
Viviane Silvera
Producer / Director
