Human Factors
Human Factors relates to people’s roles and behaviours in complex operational systems such as aviation, nuclear facilities, and healthcare. This film explores how healthcare and emergency workers train to manage encounters of crisis, with other humans and machines, the lines often blending between the two. Such encounters lay bare our physical and social fragility as much as our reliance on care institutions for survival in the face of a neoliberal ethos of individualism, self-management, and personal accountability.
For healthcare professionals and emergency services responders, these encounters are part of a daily emotional and bureaucratic engagement with crisis from which there is increasingly little individuation, support, reflection or recovery, operating in the context of what many are calling a perpetual institutional crisis that encompasses healthcare, cost of living, mental health, transportation and housing. Using simulation training as a framework, this film explores risk management and speculation, as well as how these practices can unwittingly become strange loops; a prophylactic for uncertainty and a processing of future and past trauma.
This film is part of Shorts Collection 4 - The Anatomy of Care.