Mihai Andrei Leaha
Romania, 2017, 47’ SUNDAY / November 5th / 18:30 // Cinema Muzeul Țăranului – World premiere
Production: Triba film Camera: Mihai Andrei Leaha, Andrei Crișan Editing: Adrian Mihai Popa Special Effects: Ioan Iova Postproduction: Andrei Crișan
Synopsis: Every year in Bănia village (Western Romania) takes place the spring carnival named Nunta Cornilor (Horns Wedding). The custom follows the structure of a traditional wedding but does so differently: all participants are men, some dressed up as women; the second day, they wear masks and the wedding gifts are messages that mock the evens that happen throughout the year in the village. The film represents the effort of the visual ethnographer that strives to show the custom in a visual manner that is specific to the local ways of looking at wedding videos. Therefore, the editing is done together with an amateur videographer that adds special effects specific to wedding videos. The result is a Mockup Wedding as seen by those who perform it.
Mihai Andrei Leaha PhD. is a visual anthropologist and film director. In the last years, he was part of various selection or programing comities at documentary film festivals from Europe (Astra Film Sibiu, Göttingen International Ethnografic film Festival, Culese din Balcani Bucharest, International Unseen Film Festival, Bilbao). He is producer and director at Triba Film and founding member of CEVA (Center for Visual and Anthropological Education). His films were projected and awarded at numerous film festivals.
