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Podcast: Deadly Theremin
Episode: Gratian: The Real Life Werewolf (1995)
Description: You can watch the full documentary on YouTube here. It is a short story of a real life werewolf told by the inhabitants of this small village in Romenia. Gratian receives food and clothing from the villagers, so that when he turns into a werewolf, he doesn't go after people's sheep. Much beyond the subject in question itself, this episode draws attention to documentary film as a genre, and how the director Thomas Ciulei proposes a non-colonial gaze to oral history, and non-scientific methods for documenting the life of people.Â