Description: Working with a combination of archival materials, Super 8mm film, and poetry, Augustine explores the story of fifteen year old Augustine, central hysteria patient to the studies of renowned 19th century neurologist Jean Martin Charcot. The film reworks Augustine's story through a poetic lens, revealing the abuse of power and authority by the powerful male doctor with his young female patient. By combining Charcot’s research photography done at La Salpetriere with the artist’s own performance-based Super 8 footage, this piece focuses on the poetic movement and lack of movement found in the women of Charcot's archives, simultaneously releasing the patient into the world while also revealing the weight of her eternal stillness. The film centers Augustine’s voice, and by doing so provides a poetic medical history lesson not on the scientific discovery itself but on the real people sacrificed along the way. Humanizing and revealing, this film provokes its audience to question the unquestionable truths of science and to engage with the poetic lived experiences of the politicized mad woman.