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Tarantism Revisited
October 29 2024 (2 months ago)Rating
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- Directors: Anja Dreschke, Michaela Schäuble
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 1 h 45 m
- Countries: Germany, Switzerland
- Companies: EMB – Ethnographic Mediaspace Bern, Petit à Petit Cologne
Apulia, 1959: Women in white dresses dance ecstatically in a small chapel. They jump around, roll on the ground, some even climb the altar. They are said to have been bitten by a spider. Their dancing mania requires a ritual exorcism with music. Pictures like these inspired Italian anthropologists to travel to southern Italy. Equipped with tape recorders, film and photo cameras, they tracked down the phenomenon of tarantism.
