EN:
A feast's nub - a documentary project I've been working on for the past 3 years has come to a final version as a multimedia essay, a photo reportage mixed with motion and sound.

Romanian folkloric traditions are going through a transition from the country side to the modern city. Village-like traditions are performed in the city, usually inappropriately adapted, combined with foreign customs, from other countries or cultures. Music is also undergoing a "transition crisis" as the fiddlers are replaced by DJs, pop-rock-house-dance-latino music or even iPods. The people attending the wedding are different, but all are trying to find the "mega-mix" suited for everybody's taste and only a few are trying to do what is right for their style.

It's a paradoxical age: after the Communist party moved the people from the country side into the cities, nowadays many are trying to relive their village life in the city or recently to move back outside the cities.

Things might settle in the future, until then the fiddlers are still the heart and soul of many weddings and even with a shrinking market-share they are trying to keep the traditions, as they did for many years.


RO:
Miezu' lu' Chefu' - este un proiect documentaristic la care lucrez sistematic de aproape 3 ani. A venit momentul ca seria sa capete forma finala, sub forma unui fotoreportaj multimedia, cu foto, video si sunet.

Sunt vremuri interesante pentru a-l realiza si publica pentru ca traditiile romanesti trec printr-un moment de tranzitie (inca!) de la sat la oras (si retur!). Obiceiurile de la sat inca sunt transpuse la oras intr-un mod bizar si de multe ori nepotrivit, impletite cu alte obiceiuri venite din alte tari si de la alte culturi. La fel si muzica si muzicantii trec printr-o "tranzitie de criza". Lautarii si muzica populara sunt inlocuti de DJ, muzica pop-rock-house-dance-latino, chiar iPod-uri. La randul lor nuntasii sunt de multe feluri, dar foarte putini fac ceea ce cred ei ca e bine, pur si simplu incearca sa impace si capra si varza, sa faca un "mega-mix" care sa multumeasca pe toata lumea.
Este o perioada paradoxala, plina de compromisuri, la scurt timp dupa mutarea brusca din perioada comunista de la tara la oras, urmata in ultimii ani si in prezent de incercarea de la retrai viata de la tara in oras sau mai nou de fuga din mediul urban in cel rural.
Oricum ar fi lucrurile merg inainte spre o forma care se va defini singura in viitor. Pana una-alta lautarii inca mai sunt sufletul multor petreceri si, chiar daca au o piata mai mica, incearca sa pastreze obiceiurile pe care le canta si le dirijeaza de ani de zile.

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