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ELECTRIC MALADY

by Marie Lidén

synopsis

10 years ago, life for William was a wonderful adventure, full of friends, family, opportunity and potential. A masters student and a budding musician, his future was bright and hopeful. But when a new wireless system is installed at his work that seems to have an adverse effect on his health, what starts as a bad reaction to his immediate surroundings soon becomes a lifelong battle against the wider environment. Such is the agony of his increasing sensitivity to electricity and radiation, an illness known as “electrosensitivity”, William withdraws to a remote cabin in the Swedish wilderness, the furthest he can get from technology. Hidden in a foil encased bedroom, underneath the many layers of copper lined fabric that shield him from the radiation that makes him sick, William speaks openly to Marie Liden, a Swedish filmmaker, whose own mother suffered the same illness. In intimate interviews with William and the few people who visit: his parents, the priest and medical practitioners, ‘Electric Malady’ is a modern folk-horror tale that confronts us with the reality of living with an illness that modern science can’t diagnose, but from which over 300,000 people in Sweden continue to suffer.

international title: Electric Malady
original title: Electric Malady
country: United Kingdom
year: 2022
genre: documentary
directed by: Marie Lidén
film run: 84'
screenplay: Marie Lidén
cinematography by: Michael Sherrington
film editing: David Arthur
music: John Lemke
producer: Aimara Reques
co-producer: Lorna Jane Ferguson, Su Bainbridge
executive producer: Mark Thomas
associate producer: Beth Allan
production: Aconite Productions Ltd.
distributor: Conic

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