Everybody Goes to the Hospital | Stop-Motion Horror based on a true story

The tale of 4-year-old Little Mata (writer/director Tiffany Kimmel’s mother) as she’s taken to the hospital in late 1963 with appendicitis. A selection of Short of the Week, the web’s leading curators of quality short films. JOIN US ON SHORTVERSE: SUBMIT A FILM: FULL REVIEW: [INSERT LINK TO REVIEW] Subscribe to S/W on YouTube! Website: Shortverse: Instagram: Facebook: Twitter: Everybody Goes To The Hospital Dir: Tiffany Kimmel Over a year in the making, Tiffany Kimmel‘s stop-motion animation Everybody Goes to the Hospital is a surreal and personal exploration of her mother’s real-life childhood trauma in 1963. Following a young girl named ‘Little Mata’ as she suffers from appendicitis, the film presents a dark and strange visual world, which is all together unsettling and cold. But themes of sickness go beyond the physical as it becomes clear that where there should be love are feelings of resentment. Told through the eyes of a child, Everybody Goes to the Hospital is shockingly heavy, beautifully poetic, and fantastically haunting. Having first encountered Kimmel’s short at last year’s Fantasia, in the coveted Born of Woman shorts block (alongside fellow S/W pick Stained Skin), I can attest to the chilled atmosphere of the theater after the screening. At only 9-minutes long, Everybody Goes to the Hospital is a film that will leave quite the impression on your psyche - and that’s exactly what Kimmel was hoping to achieve. “In making this film, I wanted to capture the storybook-like quality that I experienced when hearing this story as a child“, the writer/director explains. Adding that she also wanted her “mom’s childhood experience to be played out in the doll-like manner she told it, as an unprocessed traumatic fairytale,“ whilst also carrying a warning for “others to believe their children and to stay close. - S/W Curator, Chelsea Lupkin *Cast Crew* Lucia Hadley Wheeler, Voice of Little Mata Tiffany Kimmel, Writer & Director Charles Pieper, Producer McKenzie Stubbert, Producer, Original Music & Sound Eric Oxford, Lead Animator & Fabricator Ange Cox, Fabrication Rich Zim, Clay Animation Jordan Holtane, Cinematography Felicia Bleu Rose, Costume Fabrication & Design Chris Alsop, Illustration Jackie Cadiente, Character Designs, Storyboards Gregory Sesma, Storyboards Hyeun Jason Lee, Exterior Set Designer Michael J. Bishop, Hospital Fabrication Mukhtar Kaissi, House Fabrication Devin Mireles, Fabrication: Wigs Monica V. Guzman, Fabrication: Felt Madison Rubin, Set Painting Marc Ripper, Colorist Greg Doble, Motion Graphics, VFX Chuck Overcash, 3D Printed Models Claire Killick, Production Assistant Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.