Exciting news, fellow misadventurists! We are announcing our newly formed project, “A Wedding of Cultures” (working title). and happy to say we are tentatively scheduled to begin primary shooting in Cambodia by March of next year.
A Wedding of Cultures is a cultural and social documentary that asks the question: are weddings, with their age-old traditions rooted in feudal and tribal societies, still relevant in this highly mobile era where more and more of the Western world (according to media reports) is abandoning the concept of marriage as a necessity to a stable relationship?
To answer this question, we’ll be following a few brave couples belonging to wildly different cultures around the world, as they prepare for and follow through (or don’t follow through) with their weddings. We’ll talk to parents and older relatives as well as the younger generations of family and friends, exploring the ways in which specific customs are tied to narrative traditions rooted deep in the culture.
On a wider level, we will explore the ways in which a worldwide event and fashion industry has promoted a one-size-fits-all ideal of how one is “supposed” to get married, contrasting what many see as the typical wedding with the stubbornly individual reality. Through it all we will be obsessed with one question: why do people still spend their life savings and put themselves through hell and back just to conform to a tradition that from all Western statistical accounts, seems to be dying?
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Of course, we are still in the beginning stages of funding and cultivating sources for this multinational documentary, but watch this space – we’ll be providing major updates regularly on this blog and on the official website here:
aweddingofcultures.wordpress.com
As we get this project off the ground, we will be adding features to the website, and of course there will be plenty of ways to help out once we get some footage in the can.
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