Hysteries

Overview

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…

Directed by Maria Inês Nunes de Castilho

Top cast

Juliana Carneiro da Cunha

Dancer

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Isa Castro

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Maria Rita Kehl

Sílvia Leblon

Chiquinho Brandão

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Nilson Villas-Boas

Teca Pereira

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