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Gracie: The Diary of a Coma Patient (27 min.)

Jeff Wedding
Wednesday 6:00 PM at the Nickelodeon Theatre
A dark romance in which a dying coma patient must re-experience his obsession with the love he cannot have, but also the lengths he is willing to go to free himself from it.  The patient (Jaco Booyens) is a reclusive miner living on a lonely farm.  Gracie (Katie Groshong) is the object of his desire.  On his deathbed, the result of a failed suicide, the patient re-lives both real memories as well as thoughts and images conjured by the obsession of a woman he loves but could never have.  As a priest and nun sit at the patient’s bedside, prepared to deliver him his Last Rites, we watch as the madness of the patient’s comatose thoughts unfold through a landscape of terrifying nightmares.  But, also through the dreams he envisions to be bliss – leaving him in a hellish perpetual state of his love and hatred for Gracie.