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Everybody Goes to the Hospital

Tiffany Kimmel · USA · Horror / Drama / Stop-Motion · 9 min · 19K views

Directed by Tiffany Kimmel · Starring Lucia Hadley Wheeler · 2021

In late 1963, four-year-old Little Mata is taken to hospital with appendicitis, an ordeal from the director's mother's childhood reimagined as eerie stop-motion.

A haunting stop-motion memoir that turns a real childhood hospital stay into the stuff of nightmares.

The tale of 4-year-old Little Mata (writer/director Tiffany Kimmel's mother) as she's taken to the hospital in late 1963 with appendicitis.

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