Look Into My Eyes is a documentary that follows seven psychics in New York City.
The documentary is not trying to convince viewers that psychics are real or fake. That, director Lana Wilson says, viewers will have to judge for themselves. Instead, Wilson—who also made the documentaries“I'm not trying to convince anyone here that psychic readings are real,” Wilson tells TIME.
To recruit subjects for the sessions in the movie, a group of production assistants who spoke 11 languages set up tables offering free psychic readings in New York parks and outside grocery stores. The assistants had initial conversations with potential clients, and then one of the filmmakers interviewed them further over Zoom and select the subjects featured in the film. About 90% of the sessions in the film came from the tables the filmmakers set up around the city.
Several of the featured psychics had traumatic upbringings and experienced losses at a young age, which helps them empathize with their clients. Grygo breaks down in tears as he recalls losing his brother as a teenager. Kim is able to share his own struggles as an adopted child living with white parents to a client who is also Asian with white parents and who wants to know if he can communicate with her birth parents.
The documentary suggests that whether psychic readings are accurate is besides the point. The film shows that strangers talking one-on-one—that companionship—can be even more valuable. “If it resonates with the person I’m talking to, it doesn’t f***ing matter,” Ilka Poinheiro, one of the featured psychics, puts it in the film.
Wilson wants viewers to see how cathartic it is to talk to a great listener or participate in an activity that makes them feel understood. As she tells TIME, “in the end, it's all about the connection. We, as humans, so deeply have a need to feel really seen and connected to other people. It feels like magic when it occurs, and that can happen through a psychic reading, through a conversation, when you're talking to a faith leader, when you're watching a movie or reading a book.
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