Hysteries

Category: Documentary
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…

Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1983-01-01
Run time: 16 minute / 0:16
Director: Maria Inês Nunes de Castilho
Writers: Cida Aidar, Isa Castro.
Production Company : Tatu Filmes
Production Country: Brazil