director:
Amanda Feilding
actor:
Amanda Feilding
/
Birdie
genre:
Documentary
language:
English
length: 12m
release date: 1970-01-01
IMDb: tt10050372
overview
Heartbeat in the Brain is a 1970 documentary film produced and directed by Amanda Feilding, an advocate of trepanation. In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.