#258: That Time We Watched Häxan

By tortell1 2 years ago

This week concluding Documentary month and serving as an appetizer for spooky season we watched the 1922 silent film Häxan. Directed by Benjamin Christensen the film consists of sequences that are partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized narrative sequences. The film charts the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century and is based partly on Christensen’s own study of the Malleus Maleficarum. He proposes that such witch hunts may have stemmed from misunderstandings of mental or neurological disorders, triggering mass hysteria. Come join us!!

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