Convulsive States
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.
Directed by Liz Magic Laser
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2h 20m together
Convulsive States
Exit Through the Gift Shop
A close match in mood and era.

