coma2020 - a film by Michael Rosen

Premiere screening and conversation

What is intensive care? What does it mean to put someone into an induced coma? How is it done? How do people get better from such treatment? What effects happen to patients?

“In March 2020, I became ill with Covid and after a few days in hospital my condition worsened so doctors and I reached a decision that I should be put into an induced coma in intensive care. This lasted for over 40 days followed by some bewildering days while I tried to figure out what had happened to me. One way for me to make sense of it has been to make a ten-minute film in which I 'hear' what the nurses write in my 'Patient Diary', what my wife tells the family that's going on with me and what doctors inform me. Even so, I show in the film that I have a feeling that I have been reduced to a helpless body pulled apart into bits such that it's my job, following the coma to put it back together.”
– Michael Rosen

Join us in person for the premiere screening of this film followed by conversation and Q&A between Michael and Professor Dr Hugh Montgomery - the consultant on Michael’s intensive care ward and who we hear from (briefly) in the film.

Please note - we anticipate this event will be very popular and tickets are very limited. If you can no longer attend the event, please cancel your ticket so someone else can attend.

Or you can join us online, a live stream from the event in person at the Old Operating Theatre.