In 1938, a 70-year-old Romanian professor is struck by lightning and gains exceptional abilities. As he embarks on a journey to uncover the mysteries of life, love, and time, he is pursued by mysterious organizations who also seek his powers. Through his journey, he must confront his past and face the consequences of his newfound abilities.
Mary and her mother run a post-mortem photography business in 1840's Australia. They arrive to a small farmhouse to find devastated parents grieving over the death of their daughter but as they get to work, Mary's mother is required to comfort the grieving parent, leaving Mary alone to confront her phobia.
"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama of emotionally charged recollections of strange relatives and estranged siblings, staged recreations of fast-fading pasts and personal mythologies, and reflections on the anxious states created by the body's fragile claims on time and space. It's about being a stranger in your own skin. Panic Bodies perfects the phantom quality of any good work about mourning, but it is not reducible to that. It is also enlivened by the intimacy that comes from having made a spectacle of personal secrets." (Kathleen Pirrie Adams, Xtra)
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