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T he aim of this project is to document and analyze the process of creating images of contemporary wedding ceremonies in post-traditional culture. It will focus on new forms of artistic expression and their perception. |
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 The idea to make a film on mediatization of wedding rituals was developed during ethnographic research on visuality in culture. Nowadays rituals are in the process of mediatization and media become more and more ritualized. Wedding ceremony is a perfect example of it. The film juxtaposes anthropologists' footage shot during the wedding of a Polish-English couple and interviews made later on with original material shot by the wedding photographers and the film they made of it. This heteroglotic narration is just as much interesting image of contemporary wedding ceremony as meta-commentary on a global phenomenon of wedding films.
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Tomasz Saliński
Jakub Czerwiński
Sylwia Chorązka
Łukasz Suszek
Sławomir Sikora
Karolina Dudek  Editing
Szymon Pietrowski A Film by Karolina Dudek
Sławomir Sikora 73', Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology 2009 |
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Nixongate is an experimental ethnographic film about a traditional phenomenon – wedding gates – an important part of a wedding ritual. The gates are built on the way to and from the church. In a small village in the South of Poland they have been organized for the past 30 years by Nixon. His original installations are built with the use of different markers of liminality, flags, road signs and a portrait of Lenin. He creates a world that is just as much local as it is global. His helpers are children whom he pays with sweets. see more photos |
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