Event time:
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Luce Hall (LUCE), Room 202
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
34 Hillhouse Ave.
New Haven, CT
06511
Synopsis: THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE AIR is a call from the periphery of sanity. This documentary is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women ’petitioners’ at the shrine of a Sufi saint in North India. Drama unfolds via dreams, and appearances of djninns and disappearances of women. The shrine becomes a space of expressions of longing and transgression. The film invites the viewer to a world of dream and fantasy. Fear and desire is experienced through dreams and ‘afflictions of air’. The shrine is a space where performance becomes the only rile of engagement, and one can begin to think of the possibilities that ‘insanity’ produces.
Contact:
Amaar Al-Hayder