Full Out
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by
Sarah Ballard
USA, 2025, 14 min
In 19th century Paris at the Salpêtrière Hospital, patients were hypnotized on stage to reproduce the
symptoms of hysteria for public audiences. Over a century later, high school cheerleaders are fainting en masse. Full Out is the inaugural work in a suite of films investigating the intricate threads between historical accounts of mass hysteria, the body's capacity for knowing, and the ways collective resonance can both fracture and heal.