"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama of emotionally charged recollections of strange relatives and estranged siblings, staged recreations of fast-fading pasts and personal mythologies, and reflections on the anxious states created by the body's fragile claims on time and space. It's about being a stranger in your own skin. Panic Bodies perfects the phantom quality of any good work about mourning, but it is not reducible to that. It is also enlivened by the intimacy that comes from having made a spectacle of personal secrets." (Kathleen Pirrie Adams, Xtra)
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Mike Hoolboom Director
First release October 10, 1998 · Produced in Canada
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Canada
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English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Canada · October 10, 1998
Premiere · Pleasure Dome screening
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Czechia
October 28, 2003 · Premiere · Jihlava Film Festival
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