This work is a short succinct video. It is a fairy tale, that is being read as if the audience is transitioning between being awake and being asleep, being awake or being anesthetised, being alive or being dead. It is read to the rhythm of that time and space focusing on the isolating impact in the contemporary pandemic and the temporal and liminal nature of the patient’s and their family’s experience of hospital, ICU and being excluded from ICU. This work references The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman. It is a remaking. In this remaking the script of a fairy tale is set within the liminal spaces of the transition from home to hospital and the transition from life to death. We also experience this state of transition. We also experience the liminal internal and external spaces of waiting and fail to see or unsee the figure of Death.
