The Hospital

In The Hospital, Ben Barton offers slow observations of hospital life. A dead man?s phone rings; a slug encroaches through a gap in the window; a glimpse of the outside world is viewed through an X-ray held up to the light. In amongst the daily humiliations and the public spectacle of the sick and the dying, there are sparks of hope: a nip of whisky from another patient?s hip flask, the cries of a newborn from down the corridor, and one last meal, jab, swab before leaving.