Movie Details
Cast & Crew
C
Cida Aidar
Screenplay
M
Maria Inês Nunes de Castilho
Director
I
Isa Castro
Editor
I
Isa Castro
Screenplay
Hysteries
StarringJuliana Carneiro da Cunha
DirectorMaria Inês Nunes de Castilho
16 minDocumentary
Plot
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…
