Some of You Fucked Eva
Lilith Grasmug / France / 2025 / 15 min
A mysterious and disturbing video work about a group of American high school cheerleaders who suddenly began fainting simultaneously in a collective psychosis.
2002, North Carolina. Teenagers recall the investigation into the mysterious fainting of high school cheerleaders.North Carolina, USA, 2002. At a high school, the school cheerleaders train hard and measure themselves by the number of bruises on their bodies. Their patriarchal coach makes unreasonable demands, but suddenly the girls mysteriously begin to faint at the same time. The first to faint is Eva.
Many years later, some young people recall the mysterious phenomenon and tell the story through grainy images from various YouTube videos of cheerleaders, young female athletes, and scenes from proms—all cropped and manipulated to fit perfectly into the worn-out tropes of high school movies and turn the characters into mere objects. A virtuoso video work that, with conceptual clarity, flirts with both horror films and teen dramas.