For nearly a century, there has been an attempt to scientifically document mental states through moving images. These two films focus on hysteria, a disorder where unconscious thoughts are performed or acted out. The first film, shot by a doctor in 1923 records an actual case history. The second is Zoe Beloff’s own recreation of a case history of a young women based on text and photographs from Jean Martin Charcot's Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière, created at the end of the 1870s.

N.Y. Premiere