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Convulsive States

Unknown yearDirected by Liz Magic Laser

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Runtime: 54m

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Documentary

Synopsis

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

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