rituals and celebrations

The videos from the collection show everyday life, everyday rituals and celebrations. 

These recordings reflect processes that are related not only to household chores, but also to the needs of everyday life. For example, a trip to the hairdresser or shopping at the market. The videos from the collection also show what houses and apartments looked like, as well as what people wore, what they cooked and ate, what they talked about, what and who they took care of. One of the indispensable attributes of domestic urban life at that time was the television, the sound of which can often be heard on the recordings. 

This collection is one of the most intimate, as it invites the viewer into the intimate world of bright moments in the life of a family. The recordings also reflect family celebrations – the celebration of New Year, Easter, weddings. There are recordings of collective rituals, such as Radunitsa – a folk tradition of collective honoring of the memory of deceased ancestors.

From the point of view of extreme privacy, it is necessary to approach the viewing of the materials and their reflection very carefully, with an understanding of responsibility and respect for the memory of the author and participants of the recordings.