In the decade since he was first introduced to Susan Suchan, Oklahoma filmmaker Russ Kirkpatrick has been continually surprised by the plot twists in his efforts to tell her story.
“Like any documentary, you start off thinking you’re doing this, and you end up with this — and ‘Susan’ is no different,” Kirkpatrick said.
With his intimate film “Susan,” the Tulsa-based producer and director invites audiences into the life of Suchan, a fellow Tulsan trying to adapt to her confounding new existence after she is diagnosed with an uncommon form of dementia…