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.
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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.
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