Tarantism Revisited
Genre: Documentary
Company: EMB – Ethnographic Mediaspace Bern
Ratings: 0
TMDB ID: 1379453
Overview: 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.
