Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
A WITCH STORY
A documentary by Yolanda Pividal
Available from Bullfrog Films: bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/witch.html
Young writer Alice was a teenager when she discovered something that changed her life forever: she was a descendant of Martha Allen Carrier, a woman hanged for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. At 24, after scouring archives, reading academic texts, and compiling hundreds of pages of notes on witch hunts, Alice is ready to share her findings in a book. But before finishing the story, she has some last strings to tie up, which leads her to revisit the last days of Martha in Salem and to reckon with the fact that for millions around the world, Salem is not over.
Departing from a personal quest, and merging with the testimony of Italian feminist scholar Silvia Federici (“Caliban and the Witch”), and the performance of the Spanish artist Esther Musgo, A WITCH STORY is a feature documentary about memory and the need to unveil the real social and political motivations behind the Great Witch Hunts of Europe and the Americas to understand the violence waged against women today.
A WITCH STORY
A documentary by Yolanda Pividal
Available from Bullfrog Films: bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/witch.html
Young writer Alice was a teenager when she discovered something that changed her life forever: she was a descendant of Martha Allen Carrier, a woman hanged for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. At 24, after scouring archives, reading academic texts, and compiling hundreds of pages of notes on witch hunts, Alice is ready to share her findings in a book. But before finishing the story, she has some last strings to tie up, which leads her to revisit the last days of Martha in Salem and to reckon with the fact that for millions around the world, Salem is not over.
Departing from a personal quest, and merging with the testimony of Italian feminist scholar Silvia Federici (“Caliban and the Witch”), and the performance of the Spanish artist Esther Musgo, A WITCH STORY is a feature documentary about memory and the need to unveil the real social and political motivations behind the Great Witch Hunts of Europe and the Americas to understand the violence waged against women today.
