1285957
1285957

Convulsive States

en 54m
Documentary
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.

Director

Liz Magic Laser

Cinematography

Laura Geisswiller

Editor

Isaac Goes

Editor

Michelle Yoon

Sound Designer

Jared Arnold

Music

Gobby

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Status

Released

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