Kasimir Burgess

How did she spend her time there, you know, all that time alone in isolation?

You've also yourself had some very close calls.

Tell me about the football injury that you got as a teenager.

Once you were taken to hospital, Casimir, did they know right away that your spleen had been ruptured?

No spleen.

And are there long-term health effects of losing your spleen, of not having a spleen?

Well, that became a point of issue years later when you were 27.

By that stage, you know, you'd finished school, you'd gone to art school and had started working in film.

And then you were doing some filming outside the National Gallery of Victoria.

What decision did you make that day?

So meningitis can be extremely serious.

How quickly did you realise that's what you had or what was involved in treating that?

What do you mean?

What way was it horrendous?

You should have said to him, you used to be nice, you know, you used to be empathetic.

Has that changed in the years since, Kasimir, or is that an ongoing reality that the sort of shifts in your energy and your way of thinking following that infection?

Yeah.

Well, I mean, that's where I have to ask the decision to go and make a movie in the incredibly demanding conditions of a Mongolian winter.

What did that mean for your health?

Or how did your body, your mind cope with that?