16:9
7.26 min
Performers: Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg
Camera: Darko Stojkov
Editing and sound: Niclas Hallberg

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Close-up footage when playing some of the folklore games from the research:
"An ethno-sociological research of the Finnish-Swedish peasantry outdoor plays, their environment and tradition in light of the sport's general historical changes and social significance." by Maximilian Steiskal, 1954

As peasantry plays we hereby mean such physical exercise of more or less playful nature, which belongs to a tradition-bound folk environment.
The issues are closest to the functional side of playing in relation to its social nature.
Games and sports, the freedom and leisure interests are in themselves a task: to develop people and freeing mans natural ability.
Movement and activity is a psycho-physiological necessity.
Playing seems to be a balancing factor in personality.
The excitement and tension in games plays a crucial role.
In this excitement/tension the playing persons ability is tested, his physical strength, his perseverance, his ingenuity, his courage and his spiritual requisites.