The New Hospital (Het nieuwe ziekenhuis)
2018
Director: Marleine van der Werf
Script: Marleine van der Werf & Eva Wijers
Camera: Remko Schnorr
Geluid: Erik Schuring
Editor: Saskia Kievits
Sounddesign & Music: Henke Jelle de Groot
Grading & Vfx: Laurent Fluttert
Inititated & Produced by: Erasmus MC & IDTV
The New Hospital, Mid-length documentary
Innovation and scientific discoveries are rapidly changing our healthcare system. Rejuvenation, robotization, genetic alteration and organ cultivation will change our society forever. But to what extent can we engineer our own bodies? In the documentary ‘The new hospital’, we experience these dilemmas through several characters that work at the Erasmus University Hospital and who are confronted with these questions every day. After 18 years of renovation, the new Erasmus MC will open its doors. But how do you create a future proof hospital?
Rather than seeking definitive answers, the Dis_embodied Project stages experiential inquiries. Through artistic research-driven experiments, we create spaces where participants confront the instability of embodiment and reconsider the foundations of identity. If believing one does not exist can alter who one is, then the body is not merely a vessel but an active co-creator of selfhood. By investigating the limits and thresholds of embodiment, we aim to expand existing knowledge and invite new forms of dialogue between art, science, and lived experience—before the question of living without a body becomes no longer speculative, but real.