Cinema as Ritual
Cinema as Ritual is a techno-shamanic altar engaging Digital Anthropophagy to process the social iniquities of life in the U.S. during 2020 (Covid-19, West Coast wildfires, anti-Black state violence). The triptych struct
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Showing results for "ritual"The Wedding Ritual
The day after the wedding, the bride wakes up being tied up to a tree...
Ritual Visceral Memory
Ritual Visceral Memory/ Acts of Reclamation for the forgotten body. An installation of tenderness. A black body touched with care is revolution. Reclaiming our birthright cell by cell. This video work is a living poem co
Passage Through: A Ritual
“[Passage Through] required the most exacting editing process ever; and in the course of that work it occurred to me that I’d originally made 'The Riddle of Lumen' hoping someone would make an ‘answering’ film and entert
Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual
Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go into a music-induced trance and dance on bonfires in a display of religious passion.
The Ritual to Beauty
The Ritual to Beauty is a mixed media piece integrating the stylization of documentary and spoken word. Inspired by Shenny’s one-woman show “What Happens to Brown Girls Who Never Learn How to Love Themselves Brown?”, thi
Bizarre Thanksgiving Performance Ritual
A Thanksgiving Ritual
Ritual der schwarzen Sonne
60 years ago Antonin Artaud started on a voyage to the North of Mexico to get to know the rituals of the Tarahumara indians. He described this voyage in several papers. Many travellers to the Sierra Tarahumara followed h
Domestication Ritual #1
A film by Sam Hamilton
The Ritual: Black Nun
An expat in Cambodia accidentally causes a pregnant woman's death, leading her husband to curse him and his family. Years later, the curse afflicts his daughter-in-law who must undergo a ritual to give life to the unborn
Anti Reproductive Mating Ritual
Two young men skateboarding on the dock as they undress. A beautiful and intimate courtship ritual.
A Ritual of Affliction
The pandemic has clearly transformed life, culture, and art. Mobility restrictions create both alienation and entanglement. What opportunities and barriers does the virtual space produce? How is the creation redefined? T
World Uprising: Island Ritual
This film documents actions performed for World Uprising by Ikuo Shukusawa, Sanzō Tanaka, and Shigeru Hanagata, who collectively worked as Shikata Kōbō (Death Type Workshop). Camera person unknown, 1971, B&W, silent, 3 m
The Wonge Ritual
Aswad Minggu is among the few people in Ternate, North Maluku, who still practices wonge-wonge, a ritual believed to be an alternative healing through summoning ancestral spirits. The spirits are said to possess their de
From Romance to Ritual
From Romance to Ritual invokes and inverts the title of the 1920 book by Jessie L. Weston, as it, like the book, draws connections between pagan history and ritual and mythology.
Ritual to Call Summer
Yuta is attacked by a pair of masked men and tries to escape. He is cornered in a factory by two men and left bleeding. Yuta decides to take revenge on the spot, but one of the masked men, Kurumada, begins to feel in lov
The Bizarre Rope Ritual
Pink film from Toei Central.
Her Absence is the Ritual
Serani (20) lives among a land that cultivates silence and patience, where time never truly moves forward, it only loops, repeating events that keep knocking in different faces. When truth is seen as a disturbance, and s
The Meaning of a Ritual
An empathic, young plant doctor gifted with extrasensory powers and an emotionally fragile, isolated artist, must rescue each other to rediscover the essence of living. A coming of age story about two women from differe
Sacred Ritual of Truth
Solito returns to his hometown on Palawan Island and captures the sacred rituals and daily lives of its people on film. We see the ongoing disintegration of the islanders’ way of life due to the intrusion of multinationa