Health is a Privilege (short film)

  • Simonetta Gibejova
  • Simonetta Gibejova

Experimental portrayal of a working class person with chronic pain. A person wakes up in pain and is forced to go to work despite the condition. After taking all sorts of medications, still hoping to get some time to rest, is asked to show themselves for an everyday work check. As they looks perfectly fine, they’re sent out to the workplace. They start making money and are in fact impressed with the amount: maybe it was worth it? Maybe it made them happy? But once they get home, in even greater pain than before, fed up with all the medications, trying to understand the meaning of being alive, are left feeling like a product rather than a human.