For the most part, they hung up their blouses to make a living from their art. But medicine is never very far from these men and women who had the vocation to treat others before exchanging stethoscope or scalpel for a camera, a musical instrument, a feather or a brush to heal wounds and torments. . Portraits of five doctors who wanted to be artists.
Thomas Lilti,
Filmmaker
Thomas Lilti, in January 2021. © PAGA / Opale via Leemage
The health crisis caused the director of the
first year to take
a step backwards that he had not anticipated.
The first confinement having abruptly interrupted the shooting of season 2 of his series Hippocrates (1), Thomas Lilti spontaneously put on the gown to lend a hand to the medical staff of the Robert-Ballanger hospital in Aulnay-sous- Wood which housed its film set.
“I was very apprehensive about being confronted with this profession on which I had turned my back.
I did not know if I was capable of it, but, having made myself known as a filmmaker of medicine, I could not stay
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