full out

2025 | 16mm to digital | 5.1/stereo | 14 min

A film by Sarah Ballard
Sound mix and additional sound by Tom Dixon

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.

2025 First Look, Museum of the Moving Image
2025 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
2025 Images Festival
2025 Institute for Contemporary Arts London
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2025 Reykjavík International Film Festival
2025 Dissolutions Experimental Film Festival
2025 Kunstnernes Hus Cinema
2025 Laterale Film Festival
2025 Analogica Festival
2025 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
2025 Elevation Film Festival
2025 Bogotá Experimental Film Festival
2025 Guanajuato International Film Festival
2025 art + film + vienna
2025 Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Honorable Mention
2025 Athens International Film + Video Festival, Best Use of Sound
2025 Wisconsin Film Festival
2025 Florida Film Festival
2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival
2025 Milwaukee Film Festival
2025 Moviate Underground Film Festival
2025 Ribalta Experimental Film Festival
2025 Revolutions per Minute Festival
2025 Beijing International Short Film Festival