METAXA listening to time
ΜΕΤΑΞΑ ακούγοντας το χρόνο
Feature-length documentary · 87′ · 2012
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Synopsis
Doctors, nurses and staff of the METAXA Cancer Hospital, who themselves suffer from cancer, speak about the experience of illness from a dual position: that of healer and that of patient.
From the shock of diagnosis to daily coexistence with the possibility of death, the film follows how time acquires new meaning, how life is reassembled, and how illness becomes, for some, a teacher of life.
Film credits
- Genre
- Feature-length documentary
- Running time
- 87′
- Year
- 2012
- Direction – Screenplay – Sound recording
- Stavros Psillakis
- Based on an idea by
- Nikos Karvounis
- Cinematography
- Kostas Palmas
- Editing
- Spyros Kokkas
- Original music – Mixing & sound studios
- Vangelis Fampas, “Massive Productions”
- Production
- Stavros Psillakis
- Shooting locations
- METAXA Cancer Hospital & private locations, 2010
Awards
- 2nd Award for Feature-Length Film, competition programme of the 6th Chalkida Greek Documentary Festival (October 2012)
Director’s note
The experience of a serious illness, such as cancer, is in itself a powerful existential event. But when the sufferer is a doctor or a member of the nursing staff, and continues to work in the very place where they are being treated, this experience takes on additional dimensions.
At METAXA Hospital we met people who live simultaneously in the position of healer and of patient: some continue to work, some undergo treatment, some live in wait of an uncertain outcome. All of them, however, live daily with the coexistence of illness — their own and that of others.
What happens when the doctor becomes the patient, and the teacher the pupil? When the illusion of immortality collapses and time becomes flesh? In this condition, measures and standards shift, and perhaps then we discover that we owe more to poetry than to the tax office.
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