Marzanna is a two-part film that explores the memories and emotions associated with the old polish tradition of drowning marzanna. The final segment documents me and my friends reenacting the tradition in Berlin, emphasizing the awareness of tradition and its values among people. Marzanna is a slavic goddess linked to death, nature and winter, is honored in a polish ritual on the last day of winter. A doll, traditionally made of straw, white canvas and colorful ribbons – is burned and drowned in a river to symbolize banishing winter and welcoming spring. This may i organized a screening of the movie in Weissensee to talk about folk culture locally. The purpose of the project was to dive deeper into forgotten culture. To get to know the psychological aspect of tradition and the process of forgetting. It is made for film screening purposes and exhibitions. link to the movie: https://youtu.be/kCt1L58YGX0
PROCESS
It all started with a video that I recorder of my friend by Spree burning Marzanna. We
made the doll at home and burned her at the river without further explanation. Then
I decided to make a project out of it and make interviews of my family. So, three
generations shared their feeling and stories about Marzanna tradition.
The screening was a real team work. We had to organize an event and set everything up.
RESULT
I learned a lot about working with people and how to mange the project. Also learning editing program was a challenge for me. ❖ A real help was tripod and a lens that we bought from given money. ❖ The meeting on Weissensee was really motivating and heartwarming. We had a chance to receive some feed back from them and talk about folk culture and culture diversities.