Convulsive States
Laser’s hallucinatory investigative report explores Paris’s Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, widely considered the birthplace of modern psychology and neurology. Interviews with doctors, historians, clergy, and dance therapists reveal uncanny connections between the emergence of “hysteria” in 19th-century Paris and recent outbreaks of so-called TikTok tics.
- Year: 1970
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- Genre: Documentary
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- Keyword: art gallery, medical documentary, experimental cinema
- Director: Liz Magic Laser
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