How I Learned to Love the Numbers is a New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessivecompulsive disorder OCD The Berlin filmmaker Oliver Sechting 37 and his codirector Max Taubert 23 travel to New York with the idea of documenting the art scene there However the project is quickly overshadowed by Olivers OCD and the two directors fall prey to a conflict that becomes the central theme of their film Encounters with such artists as film directors Tom Tykwer Cloud Atlas Ira Sachs Keep The Lights On and Jonathan Caouette Tarnation or the transmedia artist Phoebe Legere seem more and more to resemble therapy sessions At last Andy WarholSuperstar Ultra Violet succeeds in opening a new door for Oliver
