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One Big Bag
- Runtime:
- 40 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2021
- Country:
- USA, UK
- Director:
- Cast:
- Lindsay Rico
- Production Company:
- Berlinale Section:
- Forum Expanded
- Berlinale Category:
- Experimental Film
A millennial death doula introduces us to the world of end-of-life care. With a matter-of-fact demeanor and intense physicality, she guides us into the largely uncharted waters of corpse care—practical, political, and spiritual. She performs her knowledge within a field of props that are the tools of her trade, kept in a “mobile corpse kit”—everyday items that she manipulates to profound use. The film, drawn from workshops, research, and interviews conducted with several end-of-life doulas from different cultural backgrounds, is a skill share, threaded with humor, grief, unknowing, and a desire for justice. The doula’s work encourages us to turn towards that which we strive so hard to avoid.
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