Sanatorium

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A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an £80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart. Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces -- bathtub to thermal pool, land to water, day to night -- interlacing memoir, poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising, mercurial debut