Hysteries

Hysteries

1983/01/01 • Released • Portuguese

Documentary
0.0
16m

Overview

Interspersed with documentation of dancer Juliana Carneiro da Cunha’s "Possession" performance, which draws from Christian mysticism, in the filmmaker’s words this experimental short is about “the psychic suffering of women in a patriarchal society”. It takes the viewer on a disorienting journey—with abrupt cuts in sound and image—through the Catholic Church, repressed sexuality, racial violence perpetrated by white women, maternal fatigue, male chauvinism and drug addiction…

Director : Maria Inês Nunes de Castilho

Casts
Juliana Carneiro da Cunha

Juliana Carneiro da Cunha

Dancer

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