Shortfilms

The Sacred Disease

Erica Scoggins
USA 2015
28 min
V'16

THE SACRED DISEASE is about the thin line between illness and cure, between madness and the mundane, between this world and a hidden one. It is very much about yearning for the unknown, about ‘disorder’ as a means to veiled knowledge or experience. The film is an attempt to recreate the feeling of these visceral, otherworldly seizures, which I experienced in my early 20s. Though classified as a form of epilepsy, these sudden alterations in consciousness felt like a glimpse of something beyond language, inexplicable and transcendent. (Erica Scoggins)

Credits
  • Kyla Ledes - Angie
  • Abigail Eiland - Nicole
  • Rebecca Lines - Janet
  • Erica Scoggins
  • Albrecht von Grünhagen
  • Erica Scoggins
  • Erica Scoggins
  • Madeleine Young
  • Grace Holtz
  • Becky Covington
Upside Down South Productions

Upside Down South Productions

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