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Hospital Fragments

dir. Guy Maddin / Canada 1999 / 3’

subtitles: no dialogs

retrospective: Guy Maddin A Trip to the Orphanage, Archangel, Berlin, Brand Upon the Brain!, Careful, Collage Party, Cowards Bend the Knee, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Footsteps, Glorious, Hospital Fragments, It's a Wonderful Life, It’s My Mother’s Birthday Today, My Dad Is 100 Years Old, My Winnipeg, Nude Caboose, Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Baloon Mounts Towards Infinity, Odin's Shield Maiden, Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair, Sissy-Boy-Slap-Party, Sombra dolorosa, Spanky: To the Pier and Back, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, The Dead Father, The Heart of the World, The Saddest Music in the World, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Workbooks Section index

Cast

Micheal Gottli, Angela Heck, Darcy Fehr, Brent Neal, Deborah Axelrod

Film description

In this short film Maddin returns to issues he touched upon in the Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988), creating an alternative vision of Gunner and Snjófridur's honeymoon. The motif of a fish hitting another fish is very important in Hospital Fragment as a disturbing reference to homosexual desire (just like the whipped boy in Archangel or the slapped young men in Sissy-Boy-Slap-Party). Maddin himself is very satisfied with the visual aspect of the film. (ar)