Exit

Magnus Wallin

IndieLisboa 2006 •

Sweden, Animation, 1997, 3′

“Exit” takes point in Hieronymus Bosch¬¥s drawings of disabled; the drawings are used as documentary images where the disabled are put into a nightmare-like situation where several limping, disabled people being chased by a fire coming down a 1000 metres long corridor. They seem to be victims of a demonic, grim contemporary version of a gladiator game. Every time the fire consumes someone, the applause from the loudspeakers covering the walls, crescendos. Some of the people manage to save themselves with the help of a helicopter waiting for them.