A short film documenting one of the most haunting votive practices, equally impressive and terrifying, taking place in Easter on Maltese streets. Social anthropology is conceptualised in an emotional spectacle that draws the ritualistic, the archaic and the painful into stark contrast before a fleeting audience. The video was designed for online streaming, revealing local custom as a strangely remote, obscure, yet curious happening when placed in the context of a multicultural and global internet world.
mortal chains - a short doc created for webcast short docs at channel4.com uk in 2006
