Sad doll disease
Single channel video, 2024-25 (excerpt)
5:03 min version
5:03 min version
Sad doll disease is an experimental film that borrows its name from an illness that occurs in old plastic dolls of 1940-60s.
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 references the language used for repair of old dolls in a now defunct doll hospital, to understand illness from the perspective of 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.
The languages used are Punjabi, and English.