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IFF Message to Man > 2023 > International Competition: Documentary films > Patient

Patient

Information about the film

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Lori Felker

Operator: NK Xiong, Liz Sunday, Lori Felker

Screenwriter: Lori Felker

Producer: Lori Felker

Year: 2023

Country: USA

Duration: 23 min.

Languages: English

Description

Synopsis:
Fiction, reality, the private, and the performed overlap on a routine but emotional day at a medical center.

About the director:
Lori Felker. A filmmaker, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her award- winning short films “Spontaneous” (2020), “Discontinuity” (2016) and “Imperceptihole” (2011) and feature-length documentary “FUTURE LANGUAGE: The Dimensions Of VON LMO” (2018), have screened internationally at festivals including Rotterdam, Slamdance, Festival du nouveau cinema in Montreal and Kinodot in Russia. She has worked as a cinematographer, editor, and/or actor and has programmed for the likes of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Slamdance, and Roots & Culture Gallery in Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor at DePaul University in Chicago.

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