Tarantism Revisited

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.

Country:

Germany,

Switzerland

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

105 minutes

Year:

2024

Director:

Anja Dreschke

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Company:

EMB – Ethnographic Mediaspace Bern,

Petit à Petit Cologne

Cast:

voice-over

Crew:

Director

Director

Writer

Writer

Director of Photography