Category: Movies » Documentary → Extraordinary People - The Human Camera (2008)

Extraordinary People is an ongoing series of highly adept fly on the wall Documentaries with stories based on people with amazing abilities and extraordinary medical conditions and other incredible human stories many of which are touching bitter sweet stories of peoples battles against exceptional challenges and adversities.

This film is about Artist Stephen Wiltshire M.B.E. an Autistic savant born in London and of West Indian Decent and is one of the worlds most famous living Autistic Savant the 1988 Movie The Rain Man staring Dustin Hoffman was loosely based on an autistic Mega-Savant called Kim Peek (1951 - 2009) who had an extremely incredible memory there are less than 100 recognized savants in the world today these are exceptional people.
Stephen Wiltshire's art is highly sought after and he is the only person in the world who can genuinely say they have a photographic memory he can draw accurate photo-realistic architectural drawings completely from memory but this film isn't only about his art but about his fight to achieve socially despite his social disabilities.
This film follows his story from a troubled autistic child who wouldn't talk to a calm outgoing famous and financially secure adult (very unusual for people with autism) who travels the world sometimes on his own (traveling alone is difficult for autistics) meeting famous people plus he has an art gallery and has published four books.
And shows him reconstructing London from memory on a large canvas after just a 15 minute helicopter ride portraying 1000s of accurately placed buildings in detail and scale at the amazement of people watching.