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tarantism

1 film · 2 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
La Taranta
La Taranta
1962 · Gianfranco Mingozzi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Pier Paolo Pasolini → Italy

His films explore the primal, ritualistic, and transgressive aspects of human desire and social contamination that mirror tarantism's themes of uncontrollable bodily possession and collective hysteria.

David Lynch → United States

His surrealist narratives capture the disorientation, involuntary movements, and trance-like states of characters possessed by inexplicable forces, embodying tarantism's loss of rational control.

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