written directed and edited by Fausto Romano
with Maria Marra
cinematographer Carlo Codazzo
audio mix Salvatore Versace
color correction Marco Giliberti
production assistant Chiara Forte
makeup and wigs Sofia Palmieri
set photographer Viola Berlanda
graphic design Francesco Cuna
narrator voice Fausto Romano
running time 11 min

SynopsisAmid a torrid August in Salento, a young woman awakens to the chirping of cicadas. She emerges from the earth, the very same ground that swallowed her a century ago when she was a ‘tarantata’ As she wanders through the waste and parched city, she encounters what seem to be present-day ghosts and stumbles upon the commodification of the ancient tarantism ritual, now turned into a public display of what was once her, and many others, a deeply personal pain.