Single channel video, 2024 (excerpt)
21:07 min
21:07 min
Sad doll disease is an experimental film that borrows its name from an illness that occurs in old plastic dolls of 1950-60s.
They were made of cheap plastic which started to disintegrate, and leaked through their eyes and joints, slowly infecting
all other dolls in the vicinity. The work recycles the language that was used for repair of old dolls in a now defunct doll
hospital, to understand illness from the perspective of a a patient and a caretaker’s experience, that remains absent in
documents produced by clinics and medical institutions. The work is part of an ongoing research on the parallels that exist
between the experience of being mistranslated in poetry practices and misdiagnosed in medical spheres.
The languages used are Punjabi, and English.
They were made of cheap plastic which started to disintegrate, and leaked through their eyes and joints, slowly infecting
all other dolls in the vicinity. The work recycles the language that was used for repair of old dolls in a now defunct doll
hospital, to understand illness from the perspective of a a patient and a caretaker’s experience, that remains absent in
documents produced by clinics and medical institutions. The work is part of an ongoing research on the parallels that exist
between the experience of being mistranslated in poetry practices and misdiagnosed in medical spheres.
The languages used are Punjabi, and English.