From Sick to ‘Sicko’

The last time I was imprisoned in the waiting room of a hospital, I spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how many Q-Tips I go through in an average month. Not so for Erik Luchauer and Kevin Antoine, brothers-in-law from Knoxville, Tenessee, who did battle with slogging healthcare monotony by creating Rootclip.com. It's a website through which aspiring Stan Brakhages are invited to add "chapters" to an existing short. Rootclip provided the first two-minute clip, an open-ended plot introduction, and users are asked to finish their story—one one-minute entry at a time.

In total, the short will be comprised of six chapters, each of which are chosen by online voters. At the end of the competition, during the final chapter round, one winner will win a trip to the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan to meet the “gadfly of corporations,” and the festival’s curator, Michael Moore.