Electric Malady

Posted by 33acos on September 20, 2020

2022

In this BAFTA-nominated film, Marie Lidén invites audiences into the isolated world of William, a young man who has spent a decade reluctantly retreating from modern life. A one-time master’s student and aspiring musician, his adverse reaction to the electrical radiation from our interconnected digital age has led him to a remote cabin in the Swedish wilderness. There, William spends his days hidden in a foil-encased bedroom, beneath layers of copper-lined fabric and cut off from most forms of technology. But how do you get off the grid when the grid is now everywhere?

Shot partly with a hand-cranked Bolex camera, what emerges is a lyrical and empathetic portrait of loneliness and isolation — and a loving family’s efforts to save their son’s life.