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Shortage of Space

Geir Henning HOPLAND

Norway2003 10min 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Beds are lined up in a narrow hospital corridor. On top of the beds are patients. They cannot utter a single word; they are in pain. In the mean time, the doctors and nurses pass them by. They are deaf to the patients’ pains. Now the corridor is full of patients. The doctor becomes a conductor and starts a puzzle with the beds and it seems if they get rid of just one bed, people might be able to pass through the corridor. And it is only natural that the most irksome patient should get rid of. Does that mean that at a hospital patients are just commodity? (JI Se-yeon)

Diretor

Geir Henning HOPLAND