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HOSPITAL CORRIDOR / Video ( voice-over )

Images of frosty glass, closed doors and long corridors. Camera moving around. Slowly. Passes young woman who stands with female doctor in white. Passes several times, different versions.

Doctor: "She has a history of phobias ... It started fifteen years ago with a fear of heights. She collapsed in her workstudio...
Today she claims she canīt go out. Stares at herself in the mirror. Starts to tremble and get violent spasms when we talk about it. An acute agoraphobia. A fear of meeting people ... of public spaces."

Young woman: "Can you do anything ?"

Doctor: "First she has to overcome the immidate fear. The crisis. Then we can start a treatment. With a specialized psychotherapist. It will take time ."

Young woman: "Can I do anything?"

Doctor: "Talk to her. Help her remember good times. Happy times."

Young woman: "I have to invent them ... It was so long ago. We lived in a foster home. Me and my sister. Since before our teens ..."

 

 


ABANDONED FLAT / Stills

Shattered glass on wooden floor.

A dirty mattress with a blanket on top. Empty pizza boxes. Wine bottles.

Shredded pieces of b/w photographs. A womans eyes and mouth.

 

A BRIDGE / Video

Naked feet walking on black asphalt. Wind blowing in summer dress.

Annas face behind sunglasses. Looking down with a controlled, fixed stare into the water.

White flowers on water surface. Dark water under a bridge. Iron fence on high bridge. Slowmotion splash into water.