2026  ·  USA  ·  Experimental

Visio Cordis (2025)

STATUS: Released

Visio Cordis (2025)

Watch With Labocine Pro
This film is currently not available.   

What does it mean to see the heart? The film Visio Cordis takes medical imaging as both subject and provocation, tracing how systems built to observe and measure do not merely reveal the body, but shape how care and rupture are interpreted. At its center is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or broken-heart syndrome: a condition triggered by emotional or physical stress, diagnosed predominantly in women, in which the heart briefly balloons into an unfamiliar form. Named after Japanese octopus traps, it offers a morphological language for what exceeds diagnosis—a body that shapeshifts under pressure. The film asks what is lost or obscured when intimate biological experience passes through the lens of technology, and what a poetic intervention reveals about who sees and who feels, lingering in the gap between image and experience.

Credits

Director
Sophie Hamacher
Writer
Sophie Hamacher
Producer
Sophie Hamacher

Tags

Issues