In this short solo performance for camera, the filmmaker attempts to assume the bodily positions of "hysterical" patients documented at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, where neurologist Jean Martin Charcot led the study of hysteria as a women's disorder in the late 1800s. The photographs generated at this time and place betray a highly aestheticized, seemingly choreographed series of events. This film takes interest in the act of documenting the disciplined and pathologized body in the name of science. The shutter opens and closes, the film runs through the camera, and we are left with glimpses and impressions, but never a complete picture of a situation.

Completed as part of graduate student research at Concordia University 2006-2009.