In the summer of 2014, a life-threatening aneurysm (an arterial outpouching) in the brain of the director of this film was discovered during a random examination and had to be treated surgically as soon as possible. Due to the size, shape and location of the aneurysm, it was initially unclear whether and by what method surgery could be performed at all. The frightening diagnosis, this twist of fate and the two long traumatic months until the operation, during which the aneurysm could have burst at any time, which would most likely have meant death, form the content of the film. BASTARD in mind is an experiment, an experimental documentary essay that deals with the universal themes of fate, fear, finitude and death on the basis of a personal story and is formally located somewhere between Chris Marker's "La Jetée" from 1962 and Laurie Anderson's "Heart of a dog" from 2016, which is based on an aesthetic as well as content-related experimental arrangement in which the seemingly incomprehensible is given expression.
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A chance examination delivers the frightening diagnosis of brain aneurysm. The director himself documents the months leading up to the operation.
In the summer of 2014, a life-threatening aneurysm (an arterial outpouching) in the brain of the director of this film was discovered during a random examination and had to be treated surgically as soon as possible.
Due to the size, shape and location of the aneurysm, it was initially unclear whether and by what method surgery could be performed at all. The frightening diagnosis, this twist of fate and the two long traumatic months until the operation, during which the aneurysm could have burst at any time, which would most likely have meant death, form the content of the film.
BASTARD in mind is an experiment, an experimental documentary essay that deals with the universal themes of fate, fear, finitude and death on the basis of a personal story and is formally located somewhere between Chris Marker's "La Jetée" from 1962 and Laurie Anderson's "Heart of a dog" from 2016, which is based on an aesthetic as well as content-related experimental arrangement in which the seemingly incomprehensible is given expression.