Convulsive States
54 mins
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.
Isaac Goes
Editor
Gobby
Music
Laura Geisswiller
Cinematography
Liz Magic Laser
Director
Jared Arnold
Sound Designer
Michelle Yoon
Editor