I Didn't See You There (2022)

3 1/2 Stars (out of 4)

Chair Lift

By Jeffrey M. Anderson

Oakland filmmaker Reid Davenport offers the daring experimental documentary I Didn't See You There, a meditation on what it means to be a person with a disability. It's entirely shot by Davenport from his wheelchair, never showing his own face, but rather demonstrating his everyday experience, haunted all the time by the arrival of a circus tent near his apartment. The film brings up many emotions, from empathy to frustration, as the most ordinary obstacles become life-changing.