Film
Hysteries
Brazil- Director
- Maria Inês Nunes de Castilho
- Year
- 1983
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…
Top cast
Directed by
Maria Inês Nunes de Castilho
Written by
Cida Aidar, Isa Castro
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