Fat Tuesday

Denmark

29'47'', 2024

DIRECTED BY

Emil Victor Hvidtfeldt

PRODUCED BY

UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

CINEMATOGRAPHER

EDITED BY

Emil Victor Hvidtfeldt

 

Dragging Chains moves between observation and conversation as the apparent obscurity of Grenada's Jab Jab tradition is unraveled. Filmed during the 2023 carnival season, audiences are immersed in a sensorial spectacle of oil, chains, and rhythm, while the stories told by local practitioners provide a backdrop of contemporary interpretation. As the spectacle unfolds, the initial exotic appeal gives way to deeper questions of resilience, protest, and colonial after-effects.


Emil Victor Hvidtfeldt is a visual anthropologist from Copenhagen, Denmark. He is educated in ethnographic filmmaking at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.