Wang Hao
Wang Hao studied documentary in Bijing Film academy after working in a hospital as a doctor for three years. His first documentary Pediatric Department
It took half a year to shoot this film. The director stayed with the doctors in the hospital everyday, and shoot about 100 hours' footage. Doctors trust him and didn't conceal any behavior from him. In this way, he was able to truthfully record what happened in this department during this special period: conflicts between doctors and patients, in doctors themselves and between doctors and executives, and life vs. death of helpless children, all in this relatively isolated space and in chilly contract with the monotony of the bureaucratic system. Everybody began to show a callous indifference. And when the competitions ended, nobody felt relieved, because nothing has changed.
I shot for about half a year. For the first time I looked at the doctors and the patients so closely for so long a time.
I realized that, doctors are trying their best to do something; even they know their place in this powerful system. I cannot help feeling respectful to them. But I also find that, no matter what the doctors do, no matter what kind of personal characteristics or capabilities they have, they cannot change the results of the system.
This is life, under whose seemingly clearly-defined surface lies the essence of complexity and ambiguity. This documentary is only to display the other side of the life, without right-or-wrong judgment. But we cannot close our eyes and just pretend we didn't see it.
Synopsis：
This documentary was filmed in the pediatric department in Ningguo People's Hospital in Anhui Province. This is the biggest and best local hospital, treating 60% of the patients of the region. The pediatric department was one of its busiest departments until the privately owned Huatai Hospital opened in 2004. Then there w...