k!k! kaz!m!
taranta tarana 2025 by kiki kazimi & lola pistola
5 minutes
produced in italy
this film was made under invitation of Hacker Porn Film Festival Rome for the 2025 48h film project.
A spider bite. A body spirals into hysteria. Only dance can cure it. Bodies troubled by blood, birth, control, and madness. Avoid death, or inhabit it.
TARANTA TARANTA is a story of the past and the present. It’s a claim for those burned at the stakes, those stigmatized, medicalised, marginalized, abused, or silenced. A claim to witchery, to heretic healing, to the sacredness of the body in madness.
Tarantism is a cultural syndrome from southern Italy, said to be caused by a spider’s bite. The affliction, marked by hysteria, catatonia, or delirium, was believed to be curable only through ecstatic dance. Most of the afflicted were women.
Directed by
Kiki Kazimi & Lola Pistola
Performed by
Lola Pistola
Kiki Kazimi
Nova Lov
Camilla Parker Holes
Jorge the Obscene
Malga Kubiak
Camera
Kiki Kazimi
Camera Support
Nova Lov
Jorge the Obscene
Editing
Kiki Kazimi
Choreography
Lola Pistola
Costume Support
Camilla Parker Holes
Music
Ludovico Einaudi - Taranta
Huge thanks to our loving team
Nova Lov
Camilla Parker Holes
Jorge the Obscene
Lucio Massa
Hacker Porn Film Festival
HPFF 48H FiLM PROJECT
ROME, APRIL 2025