The HBO Original documentary Quad Gods, directed by Jess Jacklin, will debut on Wednesday, July 10 (9:00-10:27 p.m. Et/Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. The documentary had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival.
Quad Gods is a high-stakes and heartwarming film that follows the lives of three New Yorkers with quadriplegia who meet in a neuro-rehabilitation lab and create the world’s first-ever, fully quadriplegic e-sports team.
As they navigate New York City, confronting challenges at every turn, they pursue their dream of competing as athletes while subverting assumptions about disability.
Richard, aka “Breadwinner1007,” Blake, aka “RepNProof,” and Prentice, aka “Mongo Slade,” meet at the Abilities Research Center at Mount Sinai Hospital where Dr. David Putrino, known colloquially as the “Quadfather,” develops innovative solutions for rehabilitation and therapy.
Illustrating the promise of new technology, including exoskeleton robotics, adaptive controllers, and brain stimulation techniques,...
Quad Gods is a high-stakes and heartwarming film that follows the lives of three New Yorkers with quadriplegia who meet in a neuro-rehabilitation lab and create the world’s first-ever, fully quadriplegic e-sports team.
As they navigate New York City, confronting challenges at every turn, they pursue their dream of competing as athletes while subverting assumptions about disability.
Richard, aka “Breadwinner1007,” Blake, aka “RepNProof,” and Prentice, aka “Mongo Slade,” meet at the Abilities Research Center at Mount Sinai Hospital where Dr. David Putrino, known colloquially as the “Quadfather,” develops innovative solutions for rehabilitation and therapy.
Illustrating the promise of new technology, including exoskeleton robotics, adaptive controllers, and brain stimulation techniques,...
- 6/26/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Dedicated video gamers are models of neural plasticity. With every “game over” and respawn, they illustrate the process by which our brains rewire themselves through practice and repetition, eventually allowing once-alien tasks like holding a controller to become almost second nature. Few arenas in life make it so easy to appreciate that “impossible” is really just a skill issue, a perspective that might prove especially motivating to people who can’t hold a controller in the first place; people who were told that many of the things able-bodied society deems second nature — semi-automatic behaviors like walking, driving, and engaging in any sort of meaningful competition — would always be impossible for them. The fact of the matter is that biology isn’t written in stone, and destiny is just a first-person shooter that nobody cared about until the sequel came out.
Dr. David Putrino has dedicated the last decade of his...
Dr. David Putrino has dedicated the last decade of his...
- 6/11/2024
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
An effectively conventional documentary that would probably work better as a 90-minute pilot for an ongoing docuseries than as a standalone film, Jess Jacklin’s Quad Gods does one unconventional thing extremely well.
Premiering on HBO after a Tribeca premiere, Quad Gods blends two genres that each tend to favor a single narrative path. Sports films progress toward unity and triumph — the solitary athlete realizes he needs coaching/love/whatever, the mismatched teammates come together, etc. Disability stories progress toward an accepted version of recovery — primarily an ableist version of “normal.”
Quad Gods is a disability story and a sports story, but it pushes back, and pushes back hard, against the traditional arcs of its respective genres. It’s a sports film without a championship game and a film about disabilities that rejects a one-size-fits-all restorative journey. It’s an anti-arc that occasionally makes Quad Gods a little unsatisfying in...
Premiering on HBO after a Tribeca premiere, Quad Gods blends two genres that each tend to favor a single narrative path. Sports films progress toward unity and triumph — the solitary athlete realizes he needs coaching/love/whatever, the mismatched teammates come together, etc. Disability stories progress toward an accepted version of recovery — primarily an ableist version of “normal.”
Quad Gods is a disability story and a sports story, but it pushes back, and pushes back hard, against the traditional arcs of its respective genres. It’s a sports film without a championship game and a film about disabilities that rejects a one-size-fits-all restorative journey. It’s an anti-arc that occasionally makes Quad Gods a little unsatisfying in...
- 6/8/2024
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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