Films: Vital Signs
Vital Signs
USA, 1991, 9 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Death / Dying, Experimental, Health / Medicine, Lesbian
Language: English
DIRECTOR: Barbara Hammer
The film employs images and text to intertwine Western constructions of death with Hammer’s personal interactions with a skeleton, clips from Renais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour, text from Foucault’s Birth of a Clinic and scenes from a a hospital intensive care unit.
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