Title
The Witch’s Cauldron
Date
2020
Medium
Performance‐based feature‐length film (Color, 92 min)
To watch the trailer
Click on the image︎︎︎
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Medium
Poster printed on vintage paper
Dimensions
62.9 x 47.2 inches (160 cm x 120 cm)
Edition
100 x Signed and numbered
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Witch’s Cauldron is a performance-based feature length film that explores therepetitive pattern of violence in the Balkans—its historic conflicts, as well as the contemporary tensions and contradictions which remain to this very day.
In the film, a live audience, consisting of different ethnic and religious groups from the Balkans, sit in a circle around a MMA fighting cage in which a single narrator recites six stories about six significant historical events impacting the Balkans.
Following each story, a real mixed martial arts fight occurs between Balkan fighters from different ethnic and religious groups—shot and framed to reveal not only the violence humans are capable of, but also manifesting the poetry of movement, mutual respect, and the very tangible intimacy of two human bodies struggling.
As each ethnic group in the audience cheers for their own, the recitations and the music gradually give rise to a frail and momentary sense of togetherness, reliving shared trauma and the hard work toward togetherness.
The Witch’s Cauldron
Date
2020
Medium
Performance‐based feature‐length film (Color, 92 min)
To watch the trailer
Click on the image︎︎︎
Medium
Poster printed on vintage paper
Dimensions
62.9 x 47.2 inches (160 cm x 120 cm)
Edition
100 x Signed and numbered
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Witch’s Cauldron is a performance-based feature length film that explores therepetitive pattern of violence in the Balkans—its historic conflicts, as well as the contemporary tensions and contradictions which remain to this very day.
In the film, a live audience, consisting of different ethnic and religious groups from the Balkans, sit in a circle around a MMA fighting cage in which a single narrator recites six stories about six significant historical events impacting the Balkans.
Following each story, a real mixed martial arts fight occurs between Balkan fighters from different ethnic and religious groups—shot and framed to reveal not only the violence humans are capable of, but also manifesting the poetry of movement, mutual respect, and the very tangible intimacy of two human bodies struggling.
As each ethnic group in the audience cheers for their own, the recitations and the music gradually give rise to a frail and momentary sense of togetherness, reliving shared trauma and the hard work toward togetherness.