A hospital admission becomes a media feeding frenzy — who's watching whom?
Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that tells itself. - And a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media.
Direction
Brynntrup collapses documentary and fiction until neither breathes
Writing
Script eats its own tail — a story about telling this story
Director
Michael Brynntrup
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Neukölln's Immanuel Kant Hospital, a real working-class Berlin district becoming gentrified during filming — the location itself performs class and crisis.
Brynntrup's cast includes multiple 'Filmemaker' roles with his own name, collapsing 1990s German auteur cinema's obsession with self-portraiture into reality TV's emerging grammar.
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