The Loss of Nameless Things

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Best Documentary - Sedona International Film FestivalBest Documentary - Temecula Valley International Film FestivalBest Documentary - San Francisco Documentary Film FestivalBest Documentary - Sidewalk Film FestivalIn the late 1970s, "enfant terrible" Oakley Hall was shaking the foundations of American theater with his Lexington Conservatory Theater group in upstate New York. While working on his verse play about the mysterious death of explorer Merriwether Lewis, â??Grinderâ??s Stand,â? Hall was poised to assume a lofty position among American playwrights. But an enigmatic fall from the bridge near his theater left him with severe brain damage, preventing him from putting even the simplest sentences together, let alone write. Virtually imprisoned by this tragic and irrevocable loss of his talent, Hall for years drank heavily and drifted between dead-end jobs before meeting his current wife Molly and moving to Nevada City, California. Now sober, he has come to terms with his loss and has resumed writing. Those â??nameless things,â? plays he might have written, are lost forever, but his inspiring return to life and his perseverance provide glowing testimony to the resilience of the human spirit."Tragic and inspiring...moved me in ways I can barely describe."Northern Ohio Live"A documentary as eloquent as its title."Los Angeles Times"Think 'A Beautiful Mind' with sex appeal."IndieWire