16mm, color, 8 min, 1998.

Cast:  Vincenzo Mistretta
Voice Over: Patricia Doyen, Timothy Shepard, Josie Walters-Johnston

A medical experience becomes a metaphor of a person’s struggle to grasp onto their individuality in a controlling and authoritarian social structure. The mechanization of the medical procedure strips the patient of any individuality by reducing language and basic body functions such as breathing to automated actions. The positive and negative images in the film are combined with the layered voice overs that try to make sense of the repetitive actions.