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…

The Crew

Juliana Carneiro da Cunha

Dancer

Isa Castro

Maria Rita Kehl

Sílvia Leblon

Chiquinho Brandão

Nilson Villas-Boas

Teca Pereira