Patient

Patient
Video, 19.5m, 2023

Fiction, reality, the private, and the performed overlap on a routine but emotional day at a medical center.

SCREENINGS:

• PREMIERE: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Competition, Germany – April 29, 2023
• Milwaukee Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI – April, 2023
• Tabor Film Festival, International Competition, Croatia – July 6-7, 2023
• Message to Man, International Competition, St Petersburg, Russia – Oct 20-28, 2023
• Short Film Night, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany – Oct 18,2023
• Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BC, Canada – Oct 20-Nov 25, 2023
• Gene Siskel Film Center, “Everyday Life” Chicago, IL – Oct 31, 2023
• Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden -Oct 23-29, 2023
• Driftless Film Festival, Mineral Point, WI – Nov 1-4, 2023
• Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY – Nov 2-5, 2023
• Millennium Film Journal Launch Screening, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY – Nov 15, 2023
• Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany – Nov 14-19, 2023
• Camera Obscura Film Festival, Petaluma, CA – Nov 17-19, 2023
• NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA – Dec 9, 2023 (Nominated, Best Experimental Film)
• San Diego Underground Film Festival – January, 2024
• Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC – March 2, 2024
• Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland – March 23, 2024
• Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI – April 6, 2024 (Winner, Golden Badger Jury Award)
• Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, OH – April 10, 2024
• Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Tulsa, OK – April 28, 2024
• Chicago Critics Film Festival, Chicago, IL – May 4, 2024
• Rooftop Films, Brooklyn, NY – July 19, 2024
• DokuFest Int’l Shorts Competition Program, Prizren, Kosovo – August 2-10, 2024
• Tallahassee Film Festival, Tallahassee, FL – August 31-September 1, 2024
• South Dakota Film Festival, Aberdeen, SD – September 12-15, 2024
• Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL – September 11-15, 2024
• Cindependent Film Festival, Cincinatti, OH – September 19-22, 2024. (Nominated, Best Experimental Film)
• Duluth Superior Film Festival, Duluth, MN – October 2-6, 2024
• Mental Filmness Film Festival, Chicago IL – October 10-12, 2024
• Drunken Film Fest, Oakland, CA – October 6-11, 2024
• Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK – November 6-10, 2024

PRESS:

O’Donnell, Liam. Chicago Critics Film Festival Shorts Program 1. Cinepunx.com. May 14, 2024.

Laczwoski, Jim. Chicago Critics Film Festival 2024: Patient. 5 Years. May 7, 2024

Goodman, Ezra. Film Spotlight: Patient. Wide Open Experimental Film Festival. April 2024

Moulton, Erica. Wisconsin Film Festival Program: Golden Badger Award Jury Statements. April 2024

Patient featured on PBS Wisconsin, Director’s Cut: The Wisconsin Film Festival, April 1st, 2024

Press Release. “Wide Open Experimental Film Festival: Highlights.” Oklahoma City Free Press, March 2024.

Sippell, Margeaux. “A Fishmonger’s Sex Pact, a Psychopath, and Too Much Cologne Highlight NFMLA’s
InFocus: Middle Eastern & Arab Cinema Program” MovieMaker Magazine, March 2024.

Marlow, Jonathan. “Hammer to Nail’s Best Films of 2023.” Hammer to Nail, December 2023.

Bessa, Susana. “69^th Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Moving Image’s Communal Body.” Millennium Film Journal, October 2023.

Eastham, Ben. “69^th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.” e-flux, May 2023.

Johnson, CJ. “A Tour Through Oberhausen’s Programs in the 69^th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.” FIPRECSCI: The international federation of film critics, April 2023.

Wesselkämper, Hannes. “Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2023: Die Antwort der Anachronismen.” Critic.de, May 6, 2023.

Schubert, Brianna. “Film Fest Finds: ‘The Milwaukee Show I’: Three highlights from the grab-bag of short films”, Milwaukee Magazine, April 28, 2023

 

PATIENT CREDITS:

Featuring:

Standardized Patients as Standardized Patients:
Ronna Trapanese as Gayle
Jim Rowe as Jonathan
Sabra Michelle as Sherrill
Melvyn Marcum as Braydon

Standardized Patients as Medical Students:
Rainy Armstrong as Melanie Wagner
NayMyo Win as Sonny Aung
Suzan Kurry as Pauline Zinn
Lydia Nyachieo as Gertrude Tefara

also featuring:
Kathleen Tissot as the Administrator
Lillian Abrams as the Instructor
Stuart Utley as the Back-Up
Ariel Teal as Administrative Support
Jenna Patenaude as Announcement Voice

Direction: Lori Felker
Writing: Lori Felker & Cast
Assistant Director: Ariel Teal
Camera: NK Xiong, Liz Sunday, Lori Felker
Sound Recording: Spencer Tye
Production Assistance: Megan Schwoerer
Editing: Lori Felker
Editing Consultants: Drew Durepos, Mike Olenick, Adam Strohm, Ward Crockett
Sound Mix: Alex Inglizian
Colorist: Ward Crockett
Research and Production Support: Jenna Patenaude, Kathleen Tissot

Support:
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
UWM Office of Research | Research Assistance Fund
DePaul University, School of Cinematic Arts

Gratitude:
Wichman Clinical Teaching and Assessment Center
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health

Lori Felker 2023