Stephen Wiltshire has been called the “Human Camera.” In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a 45-minute, first ever helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.
Beautiful Minds - A Voyage into the brain presents a series of super-talented savants like the “real” Rainman, Kim Peek, the inspiration of Dustin Hoffman’s character in the movie “Rainman”, who knows about 12,000 books by heart - word by word; or Matt Savage, a 13-year-old piano and composition genius who released his first CD with his own jazz compositions at the age of 7; or Stephen Wiltshire, nicknamed the “living camera” due to his unbelievably precise drawing by heart; or Temple Grandin, who looks at the world through the eyes of animals; or the German calculating champion Rüdiger Gamm, who raises within seconds 56 to the power of 33 without a calculator or recalls over 160 decimal digits of 62 divided by 167. More… Thanks Pat G.!