Charming Augustine

2005

Short Film, NY

Director: Zoe Beloff

Starring: Tea Alagić as Augustine

Tea Alagic as Augustine in the short film “Charming Augustine”, directed by Zoe Beloff (2005)

About the Work:
Charming Augustine is a stereoscopic 16mm film by Zoe Beloff, inspired by Augustine, a young woman exhibited as a “hysterical” patient at Paris’s Salpêtrière Hospital in the 1870s. The film examines performance, medicine, exploitation, and the male gaze.

Tea Alagić stars as Augustine, giving physical and emotional life to a woman known largely through clinical photographs and medical records.

Tea Alagić Studio
Acting

Tea Alagić

TEA ALAGIĆ is an internationally recognized theater director, playwright, actor, producer, and educator known for bold, text-driven productions that bring together groundbreaking new writing, contemporary classics, and innovative theatrical forms.

Her work combines rigorous attention to language with visual imagination and a distinctive collaborative process, and has been presented across Europe and North America.