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Quickeners
Quickeners
6.4
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10 Ratings

QUICKENERS

Directed by Jeremy Shaw
Canada, Germany, 2014
Avant-Garde, Short

Synopsis

In “Quickeners”, Jeremy Shaw presents a 33-minute-long video of appropriated footage from the 1967 documentary film “Holy Ghost People”. The footage follows a West Virginian Pentecostal community in their ritualized practice of snake handling.

Synopsis

In “Quickeners”, Jeremy Shaw presents a 33-minute-long video of appropriated footage from the 1967 documentary film “Holy Ghost People”. The footage follows a West Virginian Pentecostal community in their ritualized practice of snake handling.