Comfort Film Presents
Fais le mort! (Play Dead!) 2023

Matthew Lancit grew up in Canada, where teenagers of his generation were marked by the “body horror” film genre. Taking cue from that, Play Dead! is culled from his diary of his family’s quotidian, filmed over five years. He stages the ‘diabetes’ as a hidden, alien presence that haunts his apartment and the very depths of his body. Using performative and burlesque codes, form and content feed off each other as the filmmaker’s body transforms gradually into a haunted shell. Laced with comedy, irony and tenderness, Play Dead! mediates the complexity of living with the disease, living with someone afflicted with it, and how relationships oscillate between caring, listening, and impatience, anger, or fear. (Rasha Salti)

Director Matthew Lancit

Media: Digital Projection
Runtime 1h 20m
Free

Programed for Comfort Station by Raul Benitez, Emily Perez, Luna Lux and Mat Tapey.