10th RAI INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
27 JUNE - 2 JULY 2007
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
INCORPORATING A MAJOR CONFERENCE:
BEYOND TEXT: SYNAESTHETIC & SENSORY
PRACTICES IN ANTHROPOLOGY
CENTRE FOR SCREEN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ARTS, HISTORIES AND CULTURES
GRANADA CENTRE FOR
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS 1987 - 2007
© Antony Gormley's Waste Man commissioned by Artangel for Penny Woolcock's feature film Exodus
THE PRILEP BEAR MEN (251)
10:00, Thursday 28th June, Bragg
Director: Sonja Rizoska Jovanovskà, Ivo Kuzmanic (Macedonia)
Year: 2006
Run time: 28'
Location/Ethnic group: Prilep, Macedonia/ Macedonians
Language: In Macedonian with English subtitles
Production/Distribution: MACRO Production
This film shows how the people of the village of Prilep strive to preserve a traditional ritual procession in which local butchers, all male, dress up in bear masks and costumes and parade through the town. This procession is regarded as the only way to keep evil out of the town and is therefore considered essential to allow life to be lived normally. The film reveals how the procession raises a broad range of issues about the relationship between generations, the relationship between men and women, and about political obstacles and prohibitions The Prilep Bear Men procession is the only example in Macedonia which is not just accepted by the younger generation but continued with great respect and pleasure.
