life with his Holocaust-survivor mother and his pet bird. With the help of his wife Elaine Pain, Miller spent 9 years making the film, and the attention to imaginative detail shows us why. A former addict before he went to film school, he explained at the screening that he wanted to recreate what it was like to be high on hard drugs-- unless you've been there, it's difficult to say whether he succeeded-- -- but it's a wild trip, and a unique experience you won't soon forget.

Hospital Delusions

Dan Biholar Review In Retrospect Feb 12 2008

IT HAS TAKEN ME THIS LONG TO UNRAVEL THE INTENSE RESPONSE TO A MOVIE, A FILM THAT POSSESSES THE POWER TO PUSH ONE'S PERCEPTION TO IT'S SEEMING LIMITS ONLY TO BE EMOTIONALLY TOUCHED INand the bunny

"Gestorben wird uberall" in "Tageszeitung"-translated

Documentary Film Festival Leipzig-Death is everywhere

Strange was felt, as the time passed, even with the opening of the 50thFestival for documentary and animation film in Leipzig. The pathos is gone, with the documentary many years in the political opening speeches and celebrated his truthfulness of the alleged hostile, alienating awareness against industry.It is factual and has become fairly mundane problems encountered: "After years of cost increases for stagnating budget, we can what has been achieved with existing resources no longer hold," says Festival Director Claas Danielsen. An exhibition and an extensive retrospective wisdom recalled the ambivalent GDR history of the festival. Initially, the oldest documentary film festival in the world.The animal Heinz Sielmann won one of the first prizes. Ideological be hardened