Sick! Festival (Manchester): How To Disappear Completely

In September of 2000, renowned lighting designer Itai Erdal received a phone call telling him his mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and had nine months to live.

Itai, a recent film-school graduate promptly moved back to Israel to spend every moment he could with his dying mother.

During that time he shot hours of film and hundreds of pictures, documenting her final days.

In a starkly simple yet deeply profound original work, Erdal demonstrates his approach to theatrical lighting while reflecting on the events following his mother asking him to take her life.