Can I Help You?
The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, 2008
with: Shea Elmore, Johnny Lops, Katherine O’Sullivan, Sharla Meese, and Katherine Wessling
Photo by Steven Boling.
Two transcribers parse raw video dailies for a medical reality TV show as the patients in the footage visit the hospital Trauma ward. Their struggles are cut, spelled out, rewound, fast-forwarded and played again and again--and one particularly difficult, truculent patient emerges with a horrific story that remains unrecorded and unnoticed.
LISA:
I remember seeing a few people that I recognized from before, but I don’t remember leaving. I know my way around very well, but it seems like I was lost. I couldn’t tell you if there was someone in the car with me, but I do know that my shoes and my pants and my underwear were outside of the driver’s door set nicely, which I don’t know if I did it or somebody else did it, and I couldn’t have done that from the back of a hatchback. So if there was somebody with me, I don’t know. I don’t know what I would have done out in the country like that, by myself.