This film explores a future where medical procedures are a form of entertainment for the population at large. People come to the hospital to watch, surrender themselves, and confront their own mortality on and off a theatrical gurney.
Medical and theatrical images are incised by Brecht's Epic Theatre, medical murals, stars of the stage and so on. The resulting hybridisation challenges the hospital environment, medicating and mitigating its institutional feel as well as place.
There's something very bittersweet about this piece.
Were you influenced by popular tv shows like Grey's Anatomy and other similar ones? Because one could argue that the future you are describing has already started. Or are you hinting at a medical reality show?
vjosanas 2 years ago