Tarantism

In making this film, Koester asked a group of dancers to perform this “dancing cure” in order to reflect on the unexplored, neglected, or suppressed possibilities of the body. Somewhere between performance and possession, Tarantism stages the body as a threshold through which the repressed or invisible speaks, disturbing the boundaries between pathology, ritual, and ecstatic knowledge.

• Runtime: 0h 6min
• Director: Joachim Koester