USA 1985, video, col, sound, 27:42 min
- realized by:
- Skip Blumberg
- cast&crew:
- editing:
- Rick Feist
- music:
- Carabao
- sound:
- Jan Kroeze
- production:
- Jane Aaron
- available copies:
- Electronic Arts Intermix - EAI:
- video, sound
- available for rent
- synopsis: Copyright Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. See the EAI Online Catalogue for further information about this artist and work
- "Games are a narrow slice of culture that go very deep," says Blumberg. In "Elephant Games", he celebrates the interaction of traditional culture, economics and play at the Elephant Festival in Surin, Thailand. While focusing on awesome and often outrageous spectacles such as elephant tug-of-war, soccer and speed races, Blumberg's subtext is the economic dependence of the Thai people on the elephant, its endangered status, and the need for coexistence with humans. Action-oriented and entertaining, Elephant Games is also a portrayal of a threatened cultural symbol.
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