Making it interesting... 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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Graduated from Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, Ph.D. in anthropology of photography from the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Published his works among others, in: "Konteksty", "Kwartalnik Filmowy", "Lud", "Czas Kultury", "Rocznik Historii Sztuki"
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CoursesFilm project | NixongateNixongate is an experimental ethnographic film about a traditional phenomenon – wedding gates – an important part of a wedding ritual. T
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he 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.