Tarantism Revisited

• Movies
• 2024-10-29
• IT
• Released
• 2h 45m
• Documentary

• 0.0
• 0

Production

EMB – Ethnographic Mediaspace Bern, Petit à Petit Cologne

Storyline

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.