CRIP TIME

CRIP TIME / Documentary / Blended production

Director: Pien van Grinsven

Director: Lisa Groot Haar

Producer: Jet van Schie

Producer: Luni Jančoraitė

CRIP TIME

A short, hybrid documentary about a group of young people with PAIS (Post-Acute Infection Syndrome) who have been largely bedridden for several years. They have crossed over from the ‘normal’ world into the realm of the sick, where they now live in crip time.

They speak about their transformed relationship with hope, time, creation, and desire in a world that has shrunk to the size of their bedroom. The way their illness affects their lives varies from person to person: some are still able to go outside, while others can no longer speak.

The medical world is at a loss, and there are no prognoses. Through poetic, visual reconstructions and interviews, we portray their experience together with them