Hysteries

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…

• Isa CastroScreenplay
• Maria Inês Nunes de CastilhoDirector
• Cida AidarScreenplay

• Juliana Carneiro da CunhaDancer
• Isa CastroCast
• Maria Rita KehlCast
• Sílvia LeblonCast
• Chiquinho BrandãoCast
• Nilson Villas-BoasCast
• Teca PereiraCast